Great Belt

noun

a strait in Denmark, between Zealand and Funen islands, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic Danish nameStore Bælt

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She had struck into a great belt of plantations bounding one side of the ducal estate.

The pig, Iron Hair, wears a great belt of buckskin about his middle.

Mechanically he glanced up to the point on the great belt from which the child had fallen, and measured the distance to the floor.

There was a broader arm of the sea to cross, the Great Belt, about twelve miles wide.

The great belt of deserts and steppes extending across the Old World gives us a vast territory of rare historical uniformity.

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