coteau

noun — 2 senses

noun

US /kəˈtoʊ/

Etymology From French coteau, from Old French costel, from Latin costa (“rib, side”).

Canada, US A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys.

It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.2020, Louise Erdrich, The Night Watchman, Corsair (2021), page 267:

Canada, US The side of a valley.

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