caussen.
/kɔːs/ A limestone plateau (in southern France).
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1827 G. P. Scrope Mem. Geol. Central France i. 11 These plateaux are called ‘Causses’ in the vernacular dialect.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XV. 8/2 By the Dordogne and Lot the surface is divided into a number of limestone plateaus known by the name of ‘causses’.
1922 Glasgow Herald 5 Aug. 4 The weirdly sombre causses of the Cevennes.
1963 Times 9 Feb. 11/1 Thus much of the country is wooded and prosperous, though it is interspersed here and there with those more barren strips called causses.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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