alpine-style
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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After World War II, tens of thousands of homes were built amid the trees, and neighborhoods are now filled with alpine-style houses with wood shake roofing and wooden decks, their yards blanketed in pine needles.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2021
This is an alpine-style, raw cow’s milk cheese.
From Slate • Sep. 8, 2020
He flies in for powder days, meetings with his on-site managers, and sunny lunches at the Bavarian, a charming mid-mountain alpine-style bar and restaurant established two decades ago and still run by, well, a Bavarian.
From New York Times • Feb. 20, 2019
In 1980, they joined with two other Spokane Mountaineers, Kim Momb and Jim States, for an alpine-style expedition that put Roskelley on the top of Makalu, the world’s fifth-highest peak.
From Washington Times • Dec. 12, 2015
Free its heel for nordic-style ascents and traverses; lock it down for alpine-style descents.
From Time Magazine Archive
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