abattoir

Fr. abattre "to beat down" (cf. abate)

Film critic Paul Arendt described Kill Bill Vol. 1 as "a barely watchable mess, a tangled montage of fashion gloss streaked in gore, a cocktail party in an abattoir."

What an image.

We REALLY need some Nick Cave lists. I nominate Kalli.

"I've got the abattoir blues." - Nick Cave

Perhaps because it contains the shriek of "schrei".

Good point. I don't think German fleischerei (butcher) hides anything, you can just about hear flesh being ripped apart.

The French word hides the grisliness of the slaughterhouse.

I can never remember how to spell this.

One of those words that, to me, just does not sound like what it is--happily!

"For the enlightenment of those who are not so intimately acquainted with the minutiae of the municipal abattoir ..."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14

I once lived in an old abattoir in Chicago. there were meathooks attached to the wood ceiling beams.

The ox was slaughtered in the abattoir.