plateaux

Pronunciation

 * compare: plateau

Noun

 * 1) * 1957: Justin O’Brien, The Fall, 1976 reprint, ch. 2, pp20–21 (Penguin Books; ISBN 0 14 00 1762 3; 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.
 * 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.