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  • French synonyms for "pente": la descente, une inclinaison, un escarpement, la montée, la côte

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • French synonyms for "pente": la descente, une inclinaison, un escarpement, la montée, la côte

    pente - French Word-A-Day 2006

  • French synonyms for "pente": la descente, une inclinaison, un escarpement, la montée, la côte

    French Word-A-Day: 2006

  • The vocals on Sons of Temperance are scarier every time I listen to them, they really make me think something's gone wrong with my ears. "cyber insekt in its escarpement" again in the delivery.

    FallNews 2000

  • We are like the man struggling to climb the escarpement.

    Ontario's Development and Economic Prospects 1956

  • Dans l’âpre escarpement qui sur le flot s’incline,

    J'ai cueilli cette fleur 1920

  • In an escarpement of compact greenish sandstone, I found a small wood of petrified trees in a vertical position, or rather the strata were inclined about 20-30 deg to one point and the trees 70 deg to the opposite one.

    More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 Charles Darwin 1845

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