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coteau

  • /kəˈtoʊ/ US

Where it comes from

From French coteau, from Old French costel, from Latin costa (“rib, side”).

noun coteaus · coteaux · côteau

  1. Canada, US A hilly upland including the divide between two valleys. It happened when he was a tiny boy standing at the edge of a prairie coteau. From that place, he saw the buffalo trudging out of the horizon on one side of the world.
  2. Canada, US The side of a valley.

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"coteau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/coteau. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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coteau. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/coteau

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"coteau." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/coteau.

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@misc{coteau_2026,
  title = {coteau},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coteau},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}