chomage

Borrowed from French chômage

chomage (countable and uncountable, plural chomages)

1. A period when a mill, factory, etc. stands still or idle.
   • 1851, The Farmer's Magazine (page 536)

     For many generations the canal was regularly dried once a year, for an interval of a month or six weeks, for the purpose of repairs. These chomages, as they are called, now, however, take place only once in two or in three years.