monticule

• “Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “Pitit tour en ville pour poster mon monticule de lettres de motivations ...”

  pinku-tk Diary Entry

• “Pis apres j'v faire comme mon pere ... jouer a la console apres avoir eté poster mon monticule de lettre de motivation et perdre toute notions du temps a tel point que si personne me dit qu'il faut manger je mangerai jamais!!”

  pinku-tk Diary Entry

• “On the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our arrival in his felucca.”

  The Vampyre

• “Isolated on a monticule by the river bank the chateau overlooked its brood of small pavilions, which in a way formed an _entresol_, or foyer, leading to the Pavilion Royal.”

  Royal Palaces and Parks of France

• “The massive iron gates stood alone between him and the black panther, which cowered some twenty feet away behind a low monticule covered with tufts of grass, its tiny eyes of topaz fixed upon the oncoming prey.”

  "Unto Caesar"

• “A few kilometres further on we reached the "bizarre monticule," from which sprouted a still more bizarre château.”

  The Princess Passes

• “From the railway we catch sight of the monticule crowned by an obelisk; surmounting the vine-clad slopes, we also obtain a glimpse of its "Ormes de Sully," or group of magnificent elms, one of many in”

  East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne

• “Dufrenoy in a hurry, I think, and added to the difficulty -- it is the whole hill or "colline" which is composed of tuff with cross-stratification; the central boss or "monticule" is simply trachyte.”

  More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2

• “The latter contents himself with telling us, that it is a very low hillock, _un tres bas monticule.”

  A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time

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