moulin

[ US /muˈɫæn/ ]
[ UK /mˈuːlɪn/ ]

NOUN

a chute through which supraglacial water enters a glacier, boring either to the bedrock or to the depth of common crevasse formation
the icy river plunged, roaring, into the moulin's blue depths

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But his stock-in-trade is moody, gargatuanly stringed incidental music for hysterically overblown movies like Moulin Rouge and Plunkett and MacLean.
This was accompanied with that significant flourish with his pole which is called le moulinet, because the artist, holding it in the middle, brandishes the two ends in every direction like the sails of a windmill in motion. Quentin Durward
In 1654 there was printed at the Hague an Elzevir volume -- "morum exemplar," _Latin_ characters by one Louis du Moulin. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
June 01, 2004 at 05: 40 PM poor you, david! puking AND pox-ing. and then you had to sit thru moulin rouge! Wrecked
Moulins form when water finds a crack in the glacier. Into the Heart of the Ice
My last one just slightly less than that, and this one barely half the length of Moulin Rouge.
Say the word cabaret, and you think straight away of lines of scantily-clad can-can girls kicking their legs in the Moulin Rouge or Folies Bergeres in Paris. BBC News | News Front Page | World Edition
They went to Mon Moulin in Port Louis where all the top businessmen in Mauritius ate. YELLOW BIRD
To the right, I see a dark spot—another moulin, this one dry. Into the Heart of the Ice
The Carl Rosa company presents Franz Lehar's light opera set in the heady Paris of the Moulin Rouge just a few years before the outbreak of the first world war.

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