52 mins confidence:   armrest / handrail
Explanation:
"(2) Au niveau du siège pour passager avant, cette hauteur pourra être ramenée à 140 cm. .... des appuie-bras, type crosse fixe, doivent assurer la division par ... Dans le même but, dans les autobus, l'accès du plancher aux passagers ..."
www.adressrlr.cndp.fr/index.php?.
"Les sièges devront être ancrés solidement au véhicule et ne comporter ni arrêtes vives ni aspérités susceptibles de causer des blessures ou de les aggraver en cas d’accident.
Concernant les banquettes ou sièges accolés disposés parallèlement à l’axe longitudinal, des appuie-bras, type crosse fixe doivent assurer la division par groupes de deux places assises au
plus. "
www.pierrefitte93.fr/v3/IMG/pdf/CCTP-CARS.pdf
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Note added at 4 hrs (2010-10-17 21:28:47 GMT)
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Note that the armrest "appuie-bras, type crosse fixe" is not just an armrest, but serves to divide the seats into pairs, so that they do not form a long bench. This is frequently done to prevent people from lying down on the seats.
| B D Finch
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Asker: No - handrail is already covered in the document - it is l'accotoir - thanks anyway
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19 mins confidence: gooseneck
Explanation:
It might work.
The word crosse has come up many times on KudoZ, in many different contexts. In all cases, I think, it refers to an element which curves over at the end, like a shepherd's crook, a bishop's crozier. In technical contexts it's often called a gooseneck.
Quite what it is in your bus seat is not obvious, but it could well be an upright supporting the seat whose top end is curved over and down for safety or other reasons.
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Note added at 2 hrs (2010-10-17 19:02:59 GMT)
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It might well be the support of an armrest, if your bus has fancy spirals.
Or it might be the top part of the seat back, if it curls over rearwards.
Crosse : PARTIE ARRONDIE à l' AVANT D' UNE MANCHETTE ou à l' ARRIERE D' UN DOSSIER.
Manchette : petite garniture placée sur le bras d' un fauteuil ou canapé, piquée ou à pelote selon les types.
http://www.interieurs-francais.fr/index.php?option=com_conte...
Crosse : tout ÉLÉMENT QUI SE RECOURBE. D Dé : cube destiné à servir de support et ... Entrejambe : espace compris entre les pieds d'une table ou d'un siège ... Joues : parties pleines d'un fauteuil située entre l'accotoir et la ceinture ...
seben.fr/restauration/page%20lexique.htm
CROSSE : PARTIE ARRONDIE OU EN SPIRALE DE CERTAINS ACCOTOIRS OU DOSSIERS (sur fauteuils à bras roulés par exemple)
. Manchettes : garnitures de la partie des accotoirs des sièges, ...
www.plab.org/glossaire-meubles.html
Accotoir, saillie ou partie supérieure du dossier d'un siège qui sert à ..... de certains accotoirs, forme découpé du pied d'un LIT BATEAU (LIT CROSSE) ...
tbenard.over-blog.com/article-6618968.html
La structure : le dossier rectangulaire s'incline légèrement et le haut S'ENROULE VERS L'ARRIÈRE, EN "CROSSE", les lignes sont épurées.
http://argusantiquites.canalblog.com/
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Note added at 17 hrs (2010-10-18 10:23:03 GMT)
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Researching this a little more, I have realized that crosse is not said of a shepherd's crook. For that the French is houlette, assuming it is the same instrument. While a crook is, as I understand it, used to catch sheep by hooking it round their legs or necks, an houlette is a "Bâton à l'usage des bergers, terminé par une sorte de cuiller en fer, pour lancer de la terre aux animaux qui s'écartent". Personally I'd have thought that would make them s'écarter more, but maybe French sheep are different. It continues "2. Crosse d'une évêque.
Now admittedly a shepherd's crook, with an open hook, and a bishop's crozier are a little different in that the crozier is generally a decorative form of crook in which the "hook" is replaced by a spiral form that fills the "hook" area where otherwise a choirboys neck might fit. In this it is somewhat reminiscent of the maces medieval clerics had to use in battle since it was deemed a mace would stun, not kill, and killing was not for clerics.
In technical contexts, however, a crosse is generally a part whose end is curved over 180°, like the head and foot of a lit bateau, the top of fire escape ladders where they reach the roof, standpipes, etc.
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