demilune

Example Sentences

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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

At the corner of a sort of demilune we saw the frozen fosse of the city, and the brick ramparts towering above, and opposite us an old, dark gate, with the drawbridge raised.

From The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian

There is, for instance, the demilune of lined buckram borne by the weak-eyed on their foreheads, the phylactery of the have-beens—I lay myself open to be believed a cripple, or to look an old fool.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

They cross the ditch; they mount behind the demilune.

From The Invasion of France in 1814 by Chatrian, Alexandre