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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--butte This week's theme: words that are homophones of everyday words. butte (byoot) noun An isolated hill rising abruptly from the surrounding area, having steep sides and a flat top. [From French butte (mound).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "The barren buttes surrounding this small ranching town offered scant places for coyotes to hide as hunters converged." Matthew Brown; Coyote Hunts Draw Criticism; Associated Press; Jan 21, 2007 X-Bonus For what are stars but asterisks. To point a human life? -Emily Dickinson, poet (1830-1886)

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