The Only Use of
promontory
in
A Midsummer Night's Dream
- — My gentle Puck, come hither: thou remember'st Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres To hear the sea-maid's music.†
Scene 2.1
Definition:
a high point of land or rock that overlooks land at lower elevation -- often a rocky one that juts out into the sea