Definitions for pistes

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pistes piste

Spelling: [peest]

IPA: /pist/

Pistes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 106 anagrams from letters in pistes (eipsst).

Definitions for pistes

noun

1. a track or trail, as a downhill ski run or a spoor made by a wild animal.
2. (in fencing) a regulation-size strip, usually 2 meters wide and 14 meters long, on which fencers compete.

Origin of pistes

1720-30; French: animal track Italian pista, pesta, noun derivative of pestare to pound, crush Vulgar Latin, frequentative of Latin pī(n)sere; cf. pestle

Examples for pistes

On our return to the piste, or flying field, we usually keep steadily at it until nearly dark.

One just has to drive them in a straight line across the piste.

He looked in the direction of that voice, proceeding from the group of spadassins amid the Blacks across the piste, and he smiled.