Usage examples (17)

• Clinging there, my impressions were indelible: a glass with a small demilune of drink, a woman's satin robe over a chairback.
• Wimbledon; the gallant Sir Hatton, I say, being of hot temper, superior officer, and the service a storm-party on some bastion or demilune, speaks sharp word of command...
• Their main hope now was in a fortification which they had been constructing inside the Brussels gate -- a demilune of considerable strength.
• As it was sixty feet wide and as many deep, and lay directly beneath the guns of the new demilune, the enterprise was sufficiently hazardous.