Cairngorm Mountains

American  

noun

(used with a plural verb)

1. a range in central Scotland, in the Grampian Mountains. Highest peak, Ben Macdhui, 4,296 feet (1,309 meters).

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Cairngorm Mountains British  

plural noun

1. Also called: the Cairngorms.  a mountain range of NE Scotland: part of the Grampians. Highest peak: Ben Macdui, 1309 m (4296 ft); designated a national park in 2003

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Cairngorm Mountains

She was 3000 feet above sea level, but between the Tay and the Dee, the Cairngorm Mountains rise higher than that.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Cairn′gorm-stone, or simply Cairngorm, a name often given by jewellers to brown or yellow quartz or rock-crystal, because found among the Cairngorm Mountains in Aberdeenshire.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various