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Rideau   Listen
noun
Rideau  n.  A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.






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"Rideau" Quotes from Famous Books



... de talents, disputerent un jour a qui l'emporterait sur l'autre. L'un peignit un rideau sur le mur d'un appartement, et ceux qui venaient pour le soulever afin d'examiner le tableau qu'ils s'attendaient a voir dessous, etaient tout emerveilles de ne toucher que la muraille. L'autre peignit une treille ou pendait des grappes si bien imitees que les oiseaux venaient les becqueter. ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann

... Royal Mint, and Rideau Hall, the Governor General's residence, are darkened in fear ...
— New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... fall in the Rideau is thirty-four feet, according to the Edinburgh Gazetteer of the World. The estimate of Champlain is so far out of the way that it seems not unlikely that feet were intended instead of fathoms. Vide ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain V3 • Samuel de Champlain



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