Definition of "promontories" [promontories]

• Plural form of promontory. (noun)

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• "Over time, as new communities formed and existing ones grew, fishers from neighboring communities often began to view ‘their’ seas to have particular territorial limits, with unique features of the landscape, such as promontories or coastal caves, marking their extent."
• "On this road north I found the same "promontories" that had been such a feature of the first one, flung across from the northwest to the southeast."
• "Six are vertical, of one or more of the promontories close up, including this print now at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo., that is thought to date between 1878 and 1881."