Arête
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Borrowing from fr {{2}} arête, from Latin arista.
Full definition of arête
Noun
arête
(plural arêtes)- (geology) A very thin ridge of rock.
- 2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society 2011, p. 88:In his old department in Zürich, they sit in glass cases: models to the life of the peaks he had studied, with the strata painted beautifully and accurately, passing over arête and valley alike.