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apennines
/ˈæpənaɪnz/
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What does apennines mean?
proper noun
- A mountain range in Italy, stretching 1,200 km from the north to the south of the country, along its east coast, traversing the entire Apennine Peninsula, and often called the "spine of Italy".
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Except where the distant Apennines bound the view upon the left, the whole wide prospect is one field of ruin.
This last offers to view here, as in Saltzburg, and on the chain of the Apennines, broken and steep beds.
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It is thought in Italy that the clearing of the Apennines has very materially affected the climate of the valley of the Po.
Roderick said frankly that Switzerland made him less miserable than Italy, and the Alps seemed less to mock at his enforced leisure than the Apennines.
Ethel had been earnestly assured that brigands, the true cut-throats of the modern legend, still haunted that ridge and held that pass of the Apennines.