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mountainet, -ette|maʊntɪˈnɛt|
[a. F. montagnette, dim. of montagne mountain.]
A small mountain; a hillock, mound. Also fig.
a1586Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 60 b, Her breasts (which sweetly rase vp like two faire Mountainets in the pleasaunt vale of Tempe). c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. lxviii. vi, This mountainett..doth God desire. a1603T. Cartwright Confut. Rhem. N.T. (1618) 86 He hath cast down many..mountaines and mountainets. 1859Singleton Virgil II. 218 And work with Share Rutulian mountainets [Aen. vii. 798 collis]. 1892S. R. Hole Mem. 238 The most perfect of rock-gardens, a natural conjunction of mountainettes and streamlets. |