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
They went by train as far as Chamb�ry, and then by diligence and in sledges over Mont Cenis.
From A Search For A Secret (Vol 3 of 3) A Novel by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
Milan 264 Mont Cenis 264 Eug�ne 264 No. 2.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
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