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noun, feminine

roture

/ʁɔ.tyʁ/

noun, feminine/ʁɔ.tyʁ/plural: rotures

a landholding in New France, immediately below the level of seigneurie, and typically between 40 and 200 square arpents in size

Related: roturier

Inherited from Late Latin ruptūra. Doublet of rupture.