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Definition of Cuesta
1. n. A sloping plain, esp. one with the upper end at the crest of a cliff; a hill or ridge with one face steep and the opposite face gently sloping.
Definition of Cuesta
1. a type of land elevation [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cuesta
Literary usage of Cuesta
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the War in the Peninsula, and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1851)
"Heedless and headstrong, cuesta crossed the Alberche, and not knowing by which
road the French had retired pursued them on both. The 25th he sent one column ..."
2. History of the Peninsular War by Robert Southey (1828)
"The Junta were afraid to supersede cuesta, even if they knew whom to appoint in
his place; and they were afraid even to propose this measure of detaching a ..."
3. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington, K. G. During His by Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1834)
"Sir A. Wellesley, KB, to his Excellency General cuesta. ... General cuesta.'
Lieut. General the Hon. Sir A. Wellesley, KB, to his Excellency General cuesta. ..."
4. Life, Military and Civil, of the Duke of Wellington by William Hamilton Maxwell (1852)
"cuesta now proposed that half the army should march to the rear, and that the
other half should maintain the post of Talavera. To this proposal Sir Arthur ..."
5. Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito, Minister, Ambassador, Councillor of State by André Franc̜ois Miot de Melite (1881)
"General cuesta was gathering together on the frontiers of Estremadura and Andalusia
an army partly composed of the remnants of the troops that had been ..."
6. The History of the Reign of George III.: To which is Prefixed, A View of the by Robert Bisset (1820)
"Campaign in the peninsula, — Defeat of cuesta at ... Joins cuesta and defeats
the French at Talavera. ... Resignation of cuesta. — Guerilla 'warfare. ..."
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