mottes

"If we sit indoors prettily dressed out in our best transparent silks and prettiest gewgaws, and with our 'mottes' all nicely depilated, their tools will stand up so stiff that they will be able to deny us nothing."

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

We need only sit indoors with painted cheeks, and meet our mates lightly clad in transparent gowns of Amorgos [407] silk, and with our "mottes" nicely plucked smooth; then their tools will stand like mad and they will be wild to lie with us.

The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 446? BC-385? BC Aristophanes

Some of them, straggling from the herd, rambled through the "mottes", or lay stretched out under the shade of some isolated palm-tree.

The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850

It is not necessary either that it should be entirely destitute of trees; for there are the "timber prairies," where trees grow in "mottes" or groves, sometimes termed islands -- from their resemblance to wooded islands in the sea.

The Boy Hunters Mayne Reid 1850

Widespread castle building in England began with the Norman Invasion of 1066, when William the Conqueror and his lieutenants swiftly raised mounds "mottes" as strong-points from which to dominate the Saxon locals.

The House Impregnable Stephen Brumwell 2011

The original vegetation was mostly grasslands with a few clusters of oaks, known as oak mottes or maritime woodlands.

Ecoregions of Texas (EPA) 2009

The Cathedral Camerata is a mixed voice ensemble that sings a diverse repertoire of – chant, Renaissance, and Baroque mottes and anthems – as well asnewly composed sacred works.

Grace Cathedral…San Francisco’s House of Worhship! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

Vegetation along the Lavaca River consists of scattered oak, willow, and hackberry mottes that provide cover for small game and upland birds.

Rivers of Texas 2008

In the early spring of 1835 an American botanist named Edmund McGowan travelled southeast from Béxar on the La Bahía road, following the course of the San Antonio River as it made its unhurried way through the oak mottes and prairies of Mexican Texas.

Excerpt: The Gates of The Alamo by Stephen Harrigan 2000

We passed over wide stretches of prairie, dotted here and there by mottes of timber, rising like islands from the sea-like plain; we threaded tortuous defiles of the mountains; and crawled, rather than rode, through terrific _cañons_, whose perpendicular walls of many colored rock, rising to the height of thousands of feet, shrouded the narrow pass in majestic gloom.

Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Edwin Eastman