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Cenis

American  
[suh-nee] / səˈni /

noun

  1. Mont, a mountain pass between SE France and Italy, in the Alps. 6,834 feet (2,083 meters) high.


Cenis British  
/ səni /

noun

  1. Italian name: Monte Cenisio.  a pass over the Graian Alps in SE France, between Lanslebourg (France) and Susa (Italy): nearby tunnel, opened in 1871. Highest point: 2082 m (6831 ft)

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The leg starts in the mountains, then offers the somewhat terrifying relief of a plummet down Mont Cenis before barrelling to its destination.

From The Guardian • May 21, 2013

The frontier climb of Mont Cenis is over 2000m, but the Galibier, tackled via the Col du Télégraphe, is long and steep enough to decide the entire race.

From The Guardian • May 19, 2013

In 1870, miners finished digging a nearly eight-mile-long tunnel through Mont Cenis, connecting the French and the Italian Alps.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 15, 2008

Our journey to and through Mont Cenis Tunnel: Passing the Customs: Our new friend Nurse Reynolds: Our scrimmage for provisions at Turin: Arrival at Genoa and Table-de-hote: Arrival at Rome and our Hotel, etc.

From From the Thames to the Tiber or, My visit to Paris, Rome, Florence, Venice, Milan, Switzerland, etc. by Wardle, J.

They only reached me last night, though dated 30th, but the mails go by God knows what route now, as the inundations have completely cut the Mont Cenis line.

From Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Downey, Edmund

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