aiguille
Example Sentences
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This strange aiguille has been crowned with a beautiful Romanesque chapel for some nine centuries, and it is just possible that a Roman temple stood there at an earlier date.
From France by Gordon Cochrane Home
The larger masses of the whole aiguille, and true contour of this horn, are carefully given in plate 30, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
The word aiguille does not point to the castle on the Creuse.
From The Hollow Needle; Further adventures of Arsene Lupin by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
The aiguille may generally be represented by the type a, Fig.
From Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) by John Ruskin
Next, to the left, comes the largest of the buttresses of which I have spoken, almost forming an aiguille in itself.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
