Meanings (ES + gloss)
continente
The continent; the principal land, as distinguished from islands or a peninsula.
You may have not realised when I was using the term mainland Europe, I was excluding the British Isles.
[…]I got to the mainland, where, to my great comfort, I clambered up the cliffs of the shore and sat me down upon the grass, free from danger and quite out of the reach of the wate…
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