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- noun Plural form of
spitz .
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Examples
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"Yes, and well named," said the captain, who was using his glass; "the land of mountain points -- _spitzes_ as they call them, or _piz_ in North Italy among the mountains there."
Steve Young George Manville Fenn 1870
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There were the great stocks and horns and spitzes towering up, covered with eternal snow, and we gazed at them with awe.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps George Manville Fenn 1870
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