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coteau
[< F côteau hillock]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n. — Obs. (except in place names)
a small hill; also, the slope of a low hill.
Quotations
1767
Also another Lot of Land, situate at the Grande Coteau, One Acre in Front and about Thirty Acres deep.
1875
The saving on the line by St. Esprit is much reduced by the heavy work required at "the coteau."
1924
An attempt was made to ascertain the actual consumption of goods by Upper Canada, by stationing a joint inspector at the Coteau du Lac, at whose office all boats and carriages passed from Lower Canada into Upper Canada.
2n. — West
an elevated plateau or a series of such plateaus having the appearance of a range of hills or ridges when viewed from the adjacent prairie.
See: high prairies
Quotations
1843
For seven miles our route led west-north-west . . . it then changed to west . . . through a more open country, consisting of rising grounds, or "côteaus," with bare ridges, and sides clothed with dwarf poplar and brushwood.
1872
Warned by tradition of the frightful losses of earlier times from the ravages of small-pox, the Assineboines this year kept far out in the great central prairie along the coteau, and escaped the infection altogether.
1938
. . . the Force . . . climbed the coteau twice in the next few days. . . .
1963
Except for the great cattle country of the Cypress Hills and Milk River, only the wrinkled Coteau [des Prairies] remained as isolated range. . . .