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butte
[< Cdn F < F butte hillock]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
a conspicuous isolated hill, often with a flat top, found in many areas, but especially common in southern Alberta.
Quotations
1804
My canoe got to the Butte de Sable, at the entrance of Osnaburgh Lake. . . .
1852
. . . we passed the smaller Balsam Fir Island, below which there is a pretty little bute on the left. . . .
1944
The winding Bow, the dusty Badlands, and the Sweetgrass buttes. . . .
1962
A detached low mountain is a “butte”. . . .
2n.
a low, rounded rock mountain of the Nahani country of northern British Columbia and the Northwest Territories,
Quotations
1963
. . . I was told by several Metis who spoke the Athapaska dialects that the actual meaning [of Nahani] was “people fo the buttes,” a butte in that section of Canada being a low, rounded mountain.