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Mountain on the Swiss-Italian border
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matterhorn
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Matterhorn or Monte Cervino , also known in French as Mont Cervin is a mountain of the Alps , straddling the main watershed and border between Switzerland and Italy . It is a huge and near-symmetrical pyramidal peak in the Monte Rosa area of the Pennine ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Alpine mountain, from German Matte "meadow, pastureland" (see mead (n.2)) + Horn (see horn (n.)). So called for its horn-like shape.
Usage examples of matterhorn.
He was a peasant gambolling indecorously in the valley, and the pure, cold, white, unthawed summit of the Matterhorn could not but frown on him.