demi-lune

The walls and demi-lune console table are painted crisp white, letting the striped hallway get away with being a little playful.

Miami Nice Sara Ruffin Costello 2011

For some reason I know this even as I ask again and again and again, even as I bargain, beg, behave as badly as I've ever done, as I kick the music stand, fling myself into my grandmother's treasured demi-lune table and crack two of its legs ... even then I know there will be no Juilliard no matter what I do.

A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

Lorsqu'elle signifie la terre, comme Cérès, elle est représentée avec la gerbe de blé; elle est Perséphone, la graine de semence; comme cette déesse, elle a sa faucille: c'est la demi-lune qui repose sous ses pieds.

Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 Various

"You mustn't think, you must _know_," said the conductor, gazing shrewdly at him above the rims of his demi-lune spectacles.

Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923

From that it sweeps out in a huge demi-lune of cliff, the outer cord being the east, the inner hugging the bluff.

Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

He says: 'Il rangea son armée en demi-lune et il mit son convoi au milieu: c'est à dire que son vaisseau faisait au vent l'angle obtus de la demi-lune, et les autres s'étendoient de part (_sic_) et d'autre _sur les deux lignes du plus - près_ pour former les faces de la demi-lune qui couvroient le convoi.

Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888

The longer sides fronted the east and west; and of these the former, facing the shoal and the open gulf, contained the gate of the fortress and was covered by a demi-lune and line of water batteries.

Admiral Farragut 1877

If he will not rush at the flag, the crowd shouts for the demi-lune; and the noble brute is houghed from behind, and your soul grows sick with shame of human nature, at the hellish glee with which they watch him hobbling on his severed legs.

Castilian Days John Hay 1870

It is believed that the first barrier was placed at the foot of the stone _demi-lune_, where, at present, a cannon rests on the ramparts; the second was constructed in rear of the present offices of Mr. W.

Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

In the presence of the sovereign a regiment made a simulated attack on a "demi-lune" and a bastion.

The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X Arthur L��on Imbert de Saint-Amand 1867