mesa
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- n flat tableland with steep edges
the tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water - n a city in Arizona just to the east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix
- Gehry's exuberant building is an undulating, white glass mesa that uses his characteristic whiplashing lines in a subdued and legible way.
- The curiosity gave way to horror and indignation 17 days later Cricket's bruised, partly clothed body had been found in a shallow grave on a mesa twelve miles from town.
- Sprawling across a dusty mesa outside Santa Fe, the stark gray penwhich guards and inmates alike call "the hell-house"was the site of one of the country's worst prison riots.