Advertisement
Advertisement
aiguille
[ ey-gweel, ey-gweel ]
noun
- a needlelike rock mass or mountain peak.
aiguille
/ 藞e瑟伞wi藧l; e瑟藞伞wi藧l /
noun
- a rock mass or mountain peak shaped like a needle
- an instrument for boring holes in rocks or masonry
aiguille
- A sharply pointed mountain peak found in regions that have undergone intense glaciation. Aigulles are believed to be the remnants of the elevated areas separating two adjacent cirques.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of aiguille1
Example Sentences
The 62-year-old reportedly crashed into a stationary skier, a British man, on the Aiguille Rouge mountain in Les Arcs on Tuesday.
The film also shows him tackling the Himalayas in Nepal, and Aiguille Dibona, a 3,100-metre peak in the French Alps.
By day, you鈥檙e a regular tourist soaring skyward to 12,605ft on the Aiguille du Midi cable-car; by night, you鈥檙e vibing to legendary DJ Gilles Peterson鈥檚 set from the Planpraz pop-up stage, 6,565ft above sea level.
When I was 10, I had a cousin who got married in Chamonix, and while we were there, my father and I took the lift up to the Aiguille du Midi, and I was just amazed and thought, 鈥淚 would love to live here.鈥
In 2007, about 50 cubic metres of ice fell from Planpincieux, while in September last year a mass of ice broke away from the Glacier de la Charpoua, on the south-east side of the Aiguille Verte, on the French side of Mont Blanc.
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Advertisement
Browse