Mont Cervin

[ mawnser-van ]

noun
  1. French name of Matterhorn.

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How to use Mont Cervin in a sentence

  • This spur is one of the few points from which the mass of the Mont Cervin is in anywise approachable.

  • This ice-field spreads out as an almost level plain at the base of Mont Cervin.

  • My first object was to reach some spot commanding, as nearly as might be, the lateral profile of the Mont Cervin.

  • Mont Cervin beckons to his brother, the gigantic Finsteraarhorn, across tracts of liquid ether.

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  • Behind us Mont Cervin gathered the clouds more thickly round him, until finally his grand obelisk was totally hidden.

British Dictionary definitions for Mont Cervin

Mont Cervin

/ (mɔ̃ sɛrvɛ̃) /


noun
  1. the French name for the Matterhorn

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