Both Uses of
ravine
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- The capricious ravine of streets did not cut this block of houses into too disproportionate slices.†
Chpt 1.3.2 *ravine = deep, narrow, steep-sided valley
- Continuing to mount the stories of this amphitheatre of palaces spread out afar upon the ground, after crossing a deep ravine hollowed out of the roofs in the Town, which marked the passage of the Rue Saint-Antoine, the eye reached the house of Angoulême, a vast construction of many epochs, where there were perfectly new and very white parts, which melted no better into the whole than a red patch on a blue doublet.†
Chpt 1.3.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(ravine) a deep, narrow, steep-sided gorge or valley -- especially one formed by running water
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In archaic literature, ravined may be used to mean ravenous.