Definition of "denes" [denes]

• Plural form of dene. (noun)

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• "In the end I got out from among the houses, and arrived upon the sea-beach, where I discovered a sheltered pit among the sand hillocks, which they call denes, and there I lay down and slept off my weariness."
• "Picnics, even in winter, in the wooded denes at Hawthorn and Castle Eden, by the river at Durham or on the magnificent National Trust estate at Wallington."
• "Beyond it rise black jagged cliffs; mile after mile of iron-bound wall: and here and there, at the glens 'mouths, great banks and denes of shifting sand ...."