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aiguille

[ ey-gweel, ey-gweel ]

noun

  1. a needlelike rock mass or mountain peak.


aiguille

/ ˈeɪɡwiːl; eɪˈɡwiːl /

noun

  1. a rock mass or mountain peak shaped like a needle
  2. an instrument for boring holes in rocks or masonry
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aiguille

  1. A sharply pointed mountain peak found in regions that have undergone intense glaciation. Aigulles are believed to be the remnants of the elevated areas separating two adjacent cirques.
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aiguille1

1810–20; < French: literally, needle < Vulgar Latin *ūܱ, alteration of Late Latin acucula, equivalent to acu ( s ) needle + -cula -cule 1; acicula
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Word History and Origins

Origin of aiguille1

C19: French, literally: needle
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The 62-year-old reportedly crashed into a stationary skier, a British man, on the Aiguille Rouge mountain in Les Arcs on Tuesday.

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The film also shows him tackling the Himalayas in Nepal, and Aiguille Dibona, a 3,100-metre peak in the French Alps.

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By day, you’re a regular tourist soaring skyward to 12,605ft on the Aiguille du Midi cable-car; by night, you’re vibing to legendary DJ Gilles Peterson’s set from the Planpraz pop-up stage, 6,565ft above sea level.

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When I was 10, I had a cousin who got married in Chamonix, and while we were there, my father and I took the lift up to the Aiguille du Midi, and I was just amazed and thought, “I would love to live here.”

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In 2007, about 50 cubic metres of ice fell from Planpincieux, while in September last year a mass of ice broke away from the Glacier de la Charpoua, on the south-east side of the Aiguille Verte, on the French side of Mont Blanc.

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