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We round out this week’s list with a great value côtes du rhône and a heritage red from southern Italy.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2022

The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.

From New York Times • Apr. 25, 2013

As they retreated, the French occupied the villages of Vaux and Damloup, at the foot of the côtes.

From World's War Events, Vol. II by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

L'elephas Africanus a 7 vertèbres du cou, 21 vert. dorsales, 3 lombaires, 4 sacrées, et 26 caudales; 21 paires de côtes, dont 6 vraies, et 15 fausses.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

Sur ce dernier, il observe que ce lieu, situé au milieu d'une grève des côtes de Normandie, est deux fois par jour, au temps du flux, baigné des eaux de la mer.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard