demilune
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The outdoor space consists of a tiny demilune balcony that overlooks the sea.
From New York Times ● Mar. 20, 2024
Sunlight cascades through the demilune and tall windows into the great room with its 18-foot vaulted barrel ceiling made of narrow pine slats.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 24, 2015
Not more than a dozen Pixies are on guard, the rest are beyond the demilune in the camp at supper, carousing, singing and making merry over Rodney's capture.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
But their confidence was dashed as they saw the Brownies, so far from retreating, actually forming their line of battle in front of the demilune.
From Old Farm Fairies: A Summer Campaign In Brownieland Against King Cobweaver's Pixies by Henry Christopher McCook
Their main hope now was in a fortification which they had been constructing inside the Brussels gate —a demilune of considerable strength.
From The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 30: 1579-80 by John Lothrop Motley
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