embarkation
Americannoun
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Etymology
Origin of embarkation
First recorded in 1635–45; from French embarcation, from Spanish embarcación; equivalent to embark + -ation
Example Sentences
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Embarkation day can also work to your advantage: While other passengers are unpacking and exploring the ship, you’ll have the mini-golf course to yourself.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2018
Embarkation had to be carried out by shallow-draft ships at the mole or by whale boats, dories, rafts and wreckage bobbing in the surf along the flat shelf of seashore.
From Time Magazine Archive
On a censored date it took correspondents on a 14-hour inspection of the huge, wide-flung New York Port of Embarkation.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was stationed at the New Orleans Port of Embarkation.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a vein of amusement, I remember, when I can get my mind off the annoying parts of our "Embarkation."
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)
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