What does plateaux mean?
Plateaux means plural of plateau.
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/plæˈtoʊ(z)/ · noun
plural of plateau.
1957: Justin O’Brien, The Fall, 1976 reprint, ch. 2, pp20–21 (Penguin Books; →ISBN; a translation from the original 1956 French work La Chute, by Albert Camus In the mountains I used to flee the deep valleys for the passes and plateaux; at the very least, I was a man of the uplands.
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Plateaux means plural of plateau.
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1957: Justin O’Brien, The Fall, 1976 reprint, ch. 2, pp20–21 (Penguin Books; →ISBN; a translation from the original 1956 French work La Chute, by Albert Camus In the mountains I used to flee the deep valleys for the passes and plateaux; at the very least, I was a man of the uplands.
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