mamelon

British  

/ ˈmæmələn /

noun

1. a small rounded hillock

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Etymology

Origin of mamelon

C19: from French: nipple

Example Sentences

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mamelon

After this achievement the barbarians came to a crest facing the mamelon, and Xenophon held a colloquy with them by means of an interpreter, to negotiate a truce, and demanded back the dead bodies.

From Anabasis by Dakyns, Henry Graham

They reached the summit of the mamelon from which Xenophon was descending, and began rolling down crags.

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

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 Barker, Edward Harrison