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Black Mountains

American  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range in W North Carolina, part of the Appalachian Mountains. Highest peak, Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet (2,035 meters).


Black Mountains British  

plural noun

  1. a mountain range running from N Monmouthshire and SE Powys (Wales) to SW Herefordshire (England). Highest peak: Waun Fach, 811 m (2660 ft)

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The Green Man festival will welcome revellers back to the Black Mountains, Powys, on 19 to 22 August for its 19th year.

From BBC • Jul. 16, 2021

I was standing on the Overhanging Great Wall, so named because it appears to cling to a ridge of the Black Mountains by some feat of wizardry.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2018

We first drove down the Badwater Road, which winds along the foot of the Black Mountains.

From The New Yorker • Nov. 6, 2016

Sheltering from the rain in a cosy pub"; "Gazing at the Black Mountains"; "That's it, we're all moving to Hay-on-Wye"; "Really must get around to writing that novel"; "Bumping into Jon Snow .

From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2010

“Yes,” she said, looking off into the distance, toward the Black Mountains in the south.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko