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Whereas the Chinese would be lighter due to the influence of Chinese cooking versus French cooking . . .

Exactly. Chinese food breaks down more quickly due to its lack of French-style mass, as evidenced by the fact that one is hungry again about a half-hour after eating Chinese. Whereas, after sitting down to a nice French meal of horse meat and snails, one may not feel the urge to eat again for many days or weeks afterward...

butte (byt)
n. Chiefly Western U.S.
A hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding area and has sloping sides and a flat top.

[French, from Old French butt, mound behind targets. See butt3.]

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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Butte (byt)

A city of southwest Montana south-southwest of Helena. It has been a mining center since its settlement in the 1860s and enjoyed its greatest importance after the discovery of copper deposits in 1880. Population: 37,205.

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Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

butte \Butte\, n. [F. See Butt a bound.] A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.

The creek . . . passes by two remarkable buttes of red conglomerate. --Ruxton.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

butte, AK (CDP, FIPS 9710) Location: 61.54247 N, 149.05167 W Population (1990): 2039 (798 housing units) Area: 126.1 sq km (land), 10.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99645 Butte, MT Zip code(s): 59750 Butte, ND (city, FIPS 11180) Location: 47.83741 N, 100.66592 W Population (1990): 129 (90 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58723 Butte, NE (village, FIPS 7485) Location: 42.91263 N, 98.84795 W Population (1990): 452 (221 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68722

Source: U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau