cuestas

noun

plural of cuesta
as in tors

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  1. cliffs
  2. buttes
  3. escarpments
  4. bluffs
  5. scars
  6. precipices
  7. crags
Noun
  • One of the most dramatic coastal settings in Europe, Étretat Beach lies on the Côte d’Albâtre (Alabaster Coast), a stretch of seaside in Normandy facing the English Channel that’s famous for its striking chalk cliffs.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
  • Michigan Set right where Lake Huron and Lake Michigan meet, Mackinac Island offers travelers a relaxed vacation surrounded by natural beauty like limestone cliffs and rocky beaches.
    — Kathleen Wong, USA Today, 29 July 2026
Definition of cliffs
Noun
  • Each summer, runners carry prayers more than 50 miles from the town of Bluff, Utah, to the high country below the buttes, and the White Mesa Ute community beside the monument holds its Bear Dance each year.
    — Kerri J. Malloy, The Conversation, 23 July 2026
  • Today, visitors can spot wildlife like bison, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs, and black-footed ferrets among the sharply eroded buttes.
    — Scott Bay, Travel + Leisure, 2 July 2026
Definition of buttes
Noun
  • Just as the sun prepared to sink beyond the escarpments, its rays struck every piece of the fractured glass resting on top of the window frames, alighting all of them at once, as if they were shot with electricity.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • This park is all escarpments, rivers, and old forests.
    — Daniel Scheffler, Forbes.com, 12 Sep. 2025
Definition of escarpments
Noun
  • Sugar maples, oaks and hickory trees turn the bluffs red, orange, and gold.
    — Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 29 July 2026
  • The Latour influence stretched from European high society to the Artois brewing empire, before finally reaching the bluffs of Esparza.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of bluffs
Noun
  • The road linking the Moroccan town of Fnideq to the border crossing bore the scars of the unrest.
    — Suman Naishadham, Fortune, 1 Aug. 2026
  • The burn scars have been most susceptible this summer with new fires created this season and old burn scars from years past.
    — Dave Aguilera, CBS News, 31 July 2026
Definition of scars
Noun
  • Just beyond the tips of your toes, the precipices and terraces on the walls of the canyon plunged in a series of immense stair steps — down and down again for nearly 6,000 vertical feet.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Just watch out for those precipices.
    — Caleb Harris, Austin American Statesman, 5 Mar. 2026
Definition of precipices
Noun
  • Here, outdoor enthusiasts can experience the raging Potomac River and the rocky crags of Great Falls.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 26 June 2026
  • That's why there are so few of us clinging to the crags of Mount Everest or decamping to Antarctica.
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 23 Apr. 2026
Definition of crags
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“Cuestas.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cuestas. Accessed 2 Aug. 2026.

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