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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A mountain of the Alps in northern Italy rising to 3,905 m (12,812 ft). The Ortler was the highest point in Austria until 1919, when the South Tyrol was ceded to Italy.

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Examples

  • Ortler through Christmas week, and a month afterwards.

    Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

  • Pastor Ortler was at home with the monks, and hardly had we thawed ourselves before the ample fireplace, when a supper was prepared, and over their well-spread tables the monks told stories of travellers lost among the granite heights, with clefts and ledges filled with ice.

    Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

  • Pastor Ortler was still the same, preaching to his little flock, and giving freely of his means, his wife only slightly older.

    Scenes in Switzerland American Tract Society

  • Simplon; away to the north the summits of the St. Gothard and Splügen, and in the distant east the peak of the Ortler.

    Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux

  • He has the names of all the peaks done in iron at his shop, and if you take your alpenstock to him, he will, for a few francs, brand on it all the names it will hold, from the Ortler to Mont Blanc.

    Revenge! Robert Barr 1881

  • This feat, however, would have been difficult to perform, as the girl flippantly pointed out to him, for the old man was as bald as the smooth round top of the Ortler; nevertheless, she spoke to her lover about it, and told him frankly that if there was any knife practice in that vicinity he need never come to see her again.

    Revenge! Robert Barr 1881

  • At the top there was a slight sprinkling of snow, and clouds hung over the lofty Ortler group of peaks.

    Revenge! Robert Barr 1881

  • We might, as I fully believe (there being an almost continuous line of valleys, and no mountain range of any importance between) have seen straight down to Venice and the Adriatic on the South; to the lake of Garda on the South-East; and perhaps, if the Marmolata is not in the way, to the Ortler Spitz on the East.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Ortler, Oetzthal, and Antholzer Alps. The South Eastern horizon, however, and consequently all the Primiero

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • 'It is a summer morning for the Ortler, the Gross-Glockner, the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

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