Meaning of coteau | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.
   Canada, US
2. Rare form of coteau.
   form-of, rare
3. The side of a valley.
   Canada, US

Equivalents

Examples

“It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.”

“In every direction along the côteaux which skirt this beautiful drive, we find country-houses, whose situations are judiciously chosen in reference to the views and freedom from atmospheric inconveniences.”

“[…] thence, at fourteen miles from the St. Lawrence it reaches the Kempt Road near the sixteenth mile post, after traversing a series of côteaux of gentle acclivity, excepting that nearest to Paquet’s Brook, which is objectionable on account of its steepness, but could not be avoided; […]”

“The côteaux lay smiling in the dewy sparkle of the morning sunshine, and all glad and beautiful with the coming spring.”

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