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noun

Promontory n. (pl. promontories)

(Phys. Geog.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. "Like one that stands upon a promontory."

(Anat.) A projecting part. Especially:

(a)

The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra.

(b)

A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

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Etymology of 'Promontory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Promontory" Quotes from Famous Books

... Augustin is situated upon a long narrow promontory, which juts out into the sea at right angles to the main trend of the coast-line. It faces east, turning its back upon the little town—built on the site of a Roman colonial city, originally named in honour of the pagan Emperor rather than ...

— Deadham Hard • Lucas Malet

... the distant promontory with thoughtful eyes. He put his arm around her waist. "You see the sense ...

— The Pines of Lory • John Ames Mitchell

... and the blue flowers, she saw the sea. The place she had found was a hidden corner where the sun-baked stones were padded with thyme, and nobody was likely to come. It was out of sight and sound of the house; it was off any path; it was near the end of the promontory. She sat so quiet that presently lizards darted over her feet, and some tiny birds like finches, frightened away at first, came back again and flitted among the bushes round her just as if she hadn't been there. How beautiful it was. And ...

— The Enchanted April • Elizabeth von Arnim

... pine copse, which projected like a promontory from the line of the denser forest, the noise ceased, and only the plaintive whistling of a mountain-hen, calling her scattered young together, and now and then the shrill response of a snipe to the cry of its lonely mate, fell upon the ...

— Tales From Two Hemispheres • Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

... pirouetted, the two canoes waltzing and polking together in their great ball-room, the Albert N'yanza. The voyage would have lasted ad infinitum. After three hours' exertion, we reached a point of rock that stretched as a promontory into the lake. This bluff point was covered with thick jungle to the summit, and at the base was a small plot of sandy beach, from which there was no exit except by water, as the cliff descended sheer to the lake ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

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