Meanings
- pluralplural 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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In the rural plateaux of highland Ethiopia the present-day traveller can still find scattered standing ruins of monumental buildings which are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely-studied architectural heritage is the silent witness of a fascinating cultural encounter [...]
2004, Manuel João Ramos, Isabel Boavida, editors, The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art: on Portuguese–Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries, Burlington: Ashgate, →ISBN, page unnumbered page (should be xvii)
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Rhymes with plateaux
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