[F.:—L. type calceāta: see CAUSEY.] A causeway; a paved way; a high road or highway (in France, Belgium, etc.).
1817. Keatinge, Trav., I. 161. To bestow on their chaussées a degree of solidity … so infinitely beyond any stress to which they could ever have been subject.
1849–50. Alison, Hist. Europe, xciv. § 3. XIV. 3. The great chaussée from Brussels to Charleroi runs through the centre of the position.
