noun, feminine/ɔʁ.njɛʁ/plural: ornières
rut (groove in a road); habit; routine
“Ils descendirent. Rodolphe attacha les chevaux. Elle allait devant, sur la mousse, entre les ornières.”
Alteration, under the influence of orne, of Old French ordiere, inherited from Vulgar Latin *orbitaria, from Latin orbita.