mamelon

British  

/ ˈmæmələn /

noun

1. a small rounded hillock

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Etymology

Origin of mamelon

C19: from French: nipple

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Example Sentences

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mamelon

It was this position which Napoleon first gave orders to attack, in order to carry a detached redoubt placed on a mamelon.

From World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by M. (François) Guizot

This was none other than the mamelon mentioned as above the outpost, which had been captured over their fire by the volunteer storming party in the night.

From Anabasis by Henry Graham Dakyns

Here was the better Limousin landscape—every knoll and mamelon covered with heather and other moor-plants, woods and meadows in the dells and dips.

From Two Summers in Guyenne by Edward Harrison Barker

The valley now widened out, and a village came into view, together with a ruined castle upon a mamelon, that rose like a volcanic cone from the plain.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

The houses—many of which have late Gothic doorways—are clustered about the sides of an isolated hill or mamelon in the valley of the Lot, beyond which rise the high cliffs covered with dark woods.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

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