Crossword clues for plateaus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plateau \Pla*teau"\, n.; pl. F. Plateaux (F. ?; E. ?), E. Plateaus. [F., fr. OF. platel, properly a little plate. See Plate.]
A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
An ornamental dish for the table; a tray or salver.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-third-person singular of: plateau)
Usage examples of "plateaus".
The mountains in the distance squat atop the Grand Tepui, plateaus piled upon plateaus, and protect the entire elevated region from the cold northerly winds.
The shards and lava plateaus of its slopes were like a galactic-sized crown, thrown down just above the equator of Welladay in the shallow meadows of the western seas.
The volcano, while not active, was currently sending a gray plume skyward so they had a fine guide to it on the northern tip of the island and a great look at the plateaus as well as the choice of sev-eral obvious landing sites.
Unless, of course, we were flying over one of the stone plateaus, but even then .
As we entered rougher country, climbing toward the plateaus of the region, it was harder to keep them in constant view.
Tiny rivulets had resumed their task of shaping the plateaus and the gorges.
They roved and in their own way, ruled the plains, plateaus and rolling hills to the north.
They could look out over the plains from the high plateaus and see our citadels and our towns rising where once their beasts had grazed.
Now, they were standing on a ridge overlooking a barren, rocky desert of sharp cliffs and flat-topped plateaus very much like the only place he really did know.
One glance revealed it to be a vast and lonely land, with no signs of life other than a few brown, scraggly plants on the edges of the plateaus or down in the narrow canyons.
It was either here or up on one of the plateaus, exposed to the rising wind.
They stayed on top of the plateaus except when they had to descend into the canyons to cross to another section.
But as it turned out, the plateaus were deceptively hilly, hiding variations and crevices in the land until they were nearly upon them.
This is why, as soon as piece-goods came back on the market, Marcel had thought of covering the villages of the Upper Plateaus and of the South himself in order to do without a middleman and sell directly to the Arab merchants.
She had not thought of the cold, of the biting wind, of these semi-polar plateaus cluttered with moraines.