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
Not more than a dozen Pixies are on guard, the rest are beyond the demilune in the camp at supper, carousing, singing and making merry over Rodney's capture.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
At the corner of a sort of demilune we saw the frozen fosse of the city, and the brick ramparts towering above, and opposite us an old, dark gate, with the drawbridge raised.
From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian
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 John Lothrop Motley
