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embayment
[ em-bey-muhnt ]
noun
- a coastal recess that forms a bay.
- Physical Geography. the process by which a bay is formed.
embayment
/ ɪmˈbeɪmənt /
noun
- a shape resembling a bay
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Word History and Origins
Origin of embayment1
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Example Sentences
It was in fact, a sort of natural breakwater—forming one side of a large cone, or embayment, lying between it and the true beach.
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In escaping under cover of the cloud they had gone too far, ridden direct into a deep embayment of the cliff!
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He pointed to a mass of rock lying right in the centre of the embayment, a heap which cut off our view on one side.
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In the west the only water was a small embayment reaching across southern California into Nevada.
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Into an embayment between two of the out-stretching spurs Barbato conducts them.
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