St. Louis?

[Koontz John E]

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Michael Mccafferty wrote:
> Pain Court means "short bread".
>
> There is a folk-etymology roaming around (perhaps in the article
> referenced below) that says that the term means "short of bread".
> But that's just what it is.

So, in other words, you think the name has another origin?  I for one have
never checked to see if it is an attested idiom in French.  I stopped at
the obvious.

> The name means "short bread". I believe the name occurs elsewhere in
> the Francophone word, maybe in Ontario. It is not a surname as far as I
> know.

Could it be a "dit name"?  I've always assumed that surnames like
Sanssouci were of that origin.  I've wondered about LaFlesche (la fleche),
too.