demilune

Example Sentences

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The outdoor space consists of a tiny demilune balcony that overlooks the sea.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2024

Sunlight cascades through the demilune and tall windows into the great room with its 18-foot vaulted barrel ceiling made of narrow pine slats.

From Washington Post • Apr. 24, 2015

When I left Sightwell," the scout replied, "I hurried around the west side of the demilune, which bends in pretty close to the fort, and ends in a tall, silk-lined leaf-tower.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher

Their main hope now was in a fortification which they had been constructing inside the Brussels gate —a demilune of considerable strength.

From The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80 by Motley, John Lothrop

Whereupon he plunged again into the flood, and aided by one or two others soon had the raft free from the entangling remains of the demilune.

From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by McCook, Henry Christopher