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dzܳٴDzԲé
[ moot-n-ey ]
adjective
Geology.
- noting or pertaining to a rock formation having a rounded outline like the back of a sheep, resulting from glacial action.
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Origin of dzܳٴDzԲé1
First recorded in 1840–45; from French (roche) dzܳٴDzԲé “fleecy (rock),” past participle of moutonner “to have fleecy clouds”; mouton ( def ), mutton 1( def )
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They were not dzܳٴDzԲé, their smooth look from a distance was only owing to their singular firmness.
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Some of the larger boulders had glacial furrows and scratches upon them, and all the hills bordering the shore were rounded and moutonnee.
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In addition to these polished, striated, and grooved surfaces of rock, another mark of the former action of a glacier is the "roche moutonnee."
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