Hypertext Webster Gateway: "butte"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Butte \Butte\, n. [F. See {Butt} a bound.]
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the
general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to
peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red
conglomerate. --Ruxton.
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