Cenis
Americannoun
noun
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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
In those days there was no railway across the Mont Cenis, but my mother enjoyed the vetturino journey along the roads fringed with barberries.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
On the 8th Melas’s right wing dislodged the French from the Mont Cenis, and most of the troops that had then reached Dijon were shifted southward to be ready for emergencies.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" by Various
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