lunetta

Grateful am I, as well, to the legion of tireless writers attracted to the East by recent strife and conquest, who have made Fuji more familiar to average readers than any mountain peak in the United States; who have made the biographies of favorite geishas known even in our hamlets and mining camps, and whose agreeable iteration of scenes on Manila's lunetta compel our Malaysian capital to be known as well as Coney Island and Atlantic City -- they have so graphically portrayed and described interesting features that of them nothing remains to be told.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888