dune

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Going to sit up at the top of the dune is my morning worship.

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  1. noun A hill or ridge of wind-blown sand.

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  • Just see on the left that pile of ashes they call a dune here, the gray dike on the right, the livid beach at our feet, and in front of us, the sea the color of a weak lye-solution with the vast sky reflecting the colorless waters. —  The Fall
  • But before he could reach the bottom of the dune, the collie had turned, become even more alert, and gone streaking off toward the distant line of water. —  The Forbidden Daffodils
  • The barrier had a height of eight or nine feet Standing atop the dune, they could see a thicket of scrawny palms inside the wall, and beyond that, what seemed to be a once prepossessing house which was now in a state of almost fantastic disrepair. —  024 - Red Snow
  • It was then that it had come out that Leslie Thorne had walked behind a sand dune, and it was behind this dune that the red snowfall had centered. —  024 - Red Snow
  • They had followed the wolf up the next long dune, and then the wolf turned a little toward dawn, walking along the dune's wide crest. —  F ;SF; - vol 104 issue 03 - March 2003
 

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  1. French, from Old French, from Middle Dutch dūne; see dheuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Partly a dial. form (also dene) of down, and partly from French dune = Spanish Portuguese Italian duna, a dune, = German düne, a dune, = Danish Swedish dyner, plural, from Low German dünen, plural, = Fries, dünen (also düninge, düm) = Dutch duin, a dune, = English down, a hill: see down.
  2. See dun.
 

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