butte
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butte (plural buttes)
- (US) an isolated hill with steep sides and a flat top
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2013 November 27, John Grotzinger, “The world of Mars [print version: International Herald Tribune Magazine, 2013, p. 36]”, The New York Times:
- Those multitoned buttes and mesas [of the Grand Canyon], and that incandescent sequence of colorful bands that make one of the natural wonders of the world so grand, can also be found over 100 million miles away [on Mars].
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Translations[edit]
hill
French[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Etymological sense of "target": feminine form of but.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
butte f (plural buttes)
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External links[edit]
- “butte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Norwegian Bokmål[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butte
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Adjective[edit]
butte
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