demilunen.adj.
/ˈdɛmɪl(j)uːn/ A. n.† 1. gen. A ‘half-moon’, a crescent. Obsolete.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [noun] > crescent
lunary1610
sickle1657
crescent1672
lune1709
demilunea1734
lunette1774
semi-lune1862
a1734 R. North Examen (1740) iii. vii. §95 578 These stately Figures were planted in a Demilune about an huge Fire.
1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 118 An immense Mass of Stone, of the Shape of a Demilune.
2. Fortification. An outwork resembling a bastion with a crescent-shaped gorge, constructed to protect a bastion or curtain.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > outwork > demilune
half-moon1642
demilune1728
semi-lune1862
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Demi-Lune, Half-Moon, in Fortification, an outwork..consisting of Faces, and Flanks.
1870 Daily News 26 Sept. Demi-lunes have been constructed before the gates of Paris.
3. Physiology. demilunes (crescents) of Giannuzzi or Heidenhain: certain crescent-shaped protoplasmic bodies found in the salivary glands.
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1883 New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon Demilune of Giannuzzi, a granular mass of protoplasm, of semilunar form, which forms part of the cell-contents of the salivary cells.
B. adj.
Crescent-shaped, semilunar.
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the world > space > shape > curvature > types of curvature > [adjective] > crescent-shaped
hornedc1400
semilunar1598
crescent1603
moony1605
mooned1607
half-mooned1611
lunary1623
lunar1635
semilunary1638
lunated1673
lunulated1705
moon-shaped1709
semi-lunated1726
lunular1728
lunulate1760
sickle-shaped1764
crescent-shaped1776
lunate1777
moonified1795
crescented1818
crescentic1835
semilunate1841
crescentric1851
demilune1885
crescentoid1887
1885 Proc. Royal Soc. 1884–5 38 215 The demilune cells and the serous cells, which are present..in the sub-maxillary gland of the cat.
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