Simplon

[ sim-plon; French san-plawn ]

noun

1. a mountain pass in southern Switzerland, in the Lepontine Alps: crossed by a carriage road constructed 1800–06 on Napoleon's orders. 6,592 feet (2,010 meters) high.
2. a railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy, northeast of the Simplon Pass. 12¼ miles (20 kilometers) long.

Example Sentences

The countries, ranging from pint-sized principality Monaco and small Slovenia to powerhouses like France, Germany and Italy, have focused much attention on what’s known as the “Simplon Alliance.”

From Seattle Times

Sinuous, up in the sky between one mountainside and another, the most beautiful bridge I had ever seen was in Simplon Pass, on the Swiss side.

From The New Yorker

A bridge I saw in Bern, also in stressed concrete, was strikingly beautiful and reminded me of the one at Simplon.

From The New Yorker

Menn’s Felsenau Viaduct, in Bern, was scarcely eight years old when I first saw it, his bridge at Simplon only two.

From The New Yorker

Shortly afterward, Billington published a book called “The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering,” with a picture of the Simplon bridge on the dust jacket.

From The New Yorker