Meaning
a place where animals are killed for their meat.
An abattoir is a formal or technical word for a slaughterhouse: a licensed facility where livestock animals like cattle, sheep, and pigs are professionally killed and processed to produce meat.
- He was out at the abattoirs, where after a three-mile drive we obtained him.
- In the outskirts of Paris were great abattoirs, or slaughter-pens.
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