La mer moutonne, a common phrase in everyday French found in the pocket LaRouse used symbolically in Proust's Nom de Pays on P.378 of Du Cote de Chez Swann, Folio Classique, Gallimard
>>les apôtres moutonnants et camus<<
Camus defined as >>court et plat, en parlant de nez<<
After thinking about the symbolist aspects of Proust's writing that I have read, I realized that this would be an excellent example i.e. using the adjective >>moutonnant<< or sheep-like for the white caps seen in the rough waters of Bretagne. The usual use of sheep would be to describe something peaceful, meek, and quiet. A flock of sheep reflected in the counting sheep method of curing insomnia certainly doesn't bring up ideas of turbulent seas, yet as in the picture, it fits.
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