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noun

Promontory n. (pl. promontories)

(Phys. Geog.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. "Like one that stands upon a promontory."

(Anat.) A projecting part. Especially:

(a)

The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra.

(b)

A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear.

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Etymology of 'Promontory'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Promontory" Quotes from Famous Books

... wrinkles that reflected the sun in blinding fashion and laughed at the sky with its thousands of silvery lips. In the deep space between sea and sky buzzed the deafening and joyous sound of the waves chasing each other on the flat beach of the sandy promontory. This noise and brilliancy of sunlight, reverberated a thousand times by the sea, mingled harmoniously in ceaseless and joyous agitation. The sky was glad to shine; the sea was happy to ...

— Twenty-six and One and Other Stories • Maksim Gorky

... chance to play the good Samaritan to the derelicts of the American Comic Opera Company was fast approaching the dim horizon of lost opportunities. Presently he screwed the monocle into his eye and squinted at the sea, the palaces on the promontory, the yachts in the harbor, all tranquil ...

— The Lure of the Mask • Harold MacGrath

... more for the shore?' had sounded, the last good-bye had been said, the latest pressman or photographer had scrambled ashore, and all Southampton was cheering wildly along a mile of pier and promontory when at 6 P.M., on October 14, the Royal Mail steamer 'Dunottar Castle' left her moorings and sailed with Sir Redvers Buller for the Cape. For a space the decks remained crowded with the passengers who, while the sound ...

— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... the bird's primeval nest, High on a promontory Star-pharosed, where she takes her rest, And broods new aeons 'neath her breast, ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 • Various

... that dipped and rippled in the waters were penetrated to their deepest recesses with the clear brilliancy of the sky,—a true northern sky, without a cloud, without even a softening haze, defining every outline, revealing every minute point, cutting with sharp decision the form of every promontory and ...

— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

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