mamelon
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of mamelon
C19: from French: nipple
Example Sentences
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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 Barker, Edward Harrison
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 Dakyns, Henry Graham
Signs of tent foundations and of buildings appear in impossible places; and the heights bear two Burj or "watchtowers," one visible afar, and dominating from its mamelon the whole land.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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 Barker, Edward Harrison
In the midst of this plain rises a mamelon or insulated granite rock, resembling in form Mont St. Michel, called the Mont Dol.
From Brittany & Its Byways by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.
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