Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In physical geography, an upland; a broad, flat-topped ridge of moderate elevation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys; a divide.
- noun The side of a valley.
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Examples
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Land use on the coteau is a mixture of tilled agriculture in flatter areas and grazing land on steeper slopes.
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To the south, the coteau areas (42a, 42e) east of the Coteau Slope ecoregions (42c, 42f) become progressively narrower and more eroded.
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A greater proportion of temporary and seasonal wetlands are found on the drift plains than in the coteau areas, where semipermanent wetlands are numerous.
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The Southern Missouri Coteau ecoregion, located on the southern fringe of continental glaciation, exhibits a muted coteau topography: gentle undulations rather than steep hummocks, smaller areas of high wetland density, and more stream erosion backcutting into areas of internal drainage.
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At the foot of the next coteau he beheld a strip of black.
Old Indian Days 1907
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At the foot of the next coteau he beheld a strip of black.
Old Indian Days Charles Alexander Eastman 1898
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The pleasant French coteau, green in the sunshine, delights me, either by what real mountain character it has in itself (for in extent and succession of promontory the flanks of the French valleys have quite the sublimity of true mountain distances), or by its broken ground and rugged steps among the vines, and rise of the leafage above, against the blue sky, as it might rise at Vevay or Como.
Selections From the Works of John Ruskin John Ruskin 1859
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The subsoil at Varrains being largely composed of marl, which is much softer than the tufa of the Saint-Florent coteau, necessitated the roofs of the new galleries being worked in a particular form in order to avoid having recourse to either brickwork or masonry.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
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Hermitage coteau -- the vines of which are to-day well-nigh destroyed by the phylloxera -- but are on the opposite bank of the river.
Facts About Champagne and Other Sparkling Wines Henry Vizetelly 1857
strev commented on the word coteau
water bed
or cot d'eau
April 3, 2009