aiguilles

Definition of aiguillesnext
plural of aiguille

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Noun
  • Selena Quintanilla is undoubtedly one of the pinnacles of Latin music.
    Evan Burke, Billboard, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The jagged summit of Crestone Peak, Colorado’s seventh-highest mountain, looks like a camel’s back, with two rocky pinnacles jutting skyward from the Sangre de Cristo range.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Wanaka Mountain Guides leads multi-day expeditions to the bucket-list summits of Mount Cook (New Zealand’s highest peak at 12,217 feet) and Mount Aspiring (a respectable 9,950-feet).
    Jen Murphy, Outside, 7 Jan. 2026
  • From late September through mid-November, ski guides are charting out new glacier runs and heli-skiing slopes on snowcapped summits.
    Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 26 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • As the speeches began, chaos consumed the day as air horns were blasted, pages from pornographic magazines thrown down from the balconies and white mice released on to the floor, before the ‘nun’ started dancing up and down the aisles shouting comic profanity.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The trumpets lend a romantic, even sensual touch to this anthem of desperate love, complemented by the vocals of Ricardo Yocupicio and Geovanni Mondragón and the rest of the instrumentation, which includes the essential tuba, clarinets, and horns.
    Luisa Calle, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
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“Aiguilles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aiguilles. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.

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