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demilune

[dem-i-loon] / ˈdɛm ɪˌlun /


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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

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 Henry Christopher McCook

He had need of his wisest thoughts; for the victorious Brownies were already beyond the outer line of the demilune, steadily driving Heady and his division before them.

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


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