embouchure
noun
the mouth of a river.
embouchures
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pluralof embouchure.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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His timing is spot on, exaggerating players’ embouchures of the wind instruments he fakes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2017
Lines of plane-trees, with foliage now blighted yellow and bright green in February, define the embouchures of the three grim black ravines radiating from the upper heights, and broadening out as they approach the bay.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Sir Richard Francis Burton
On the 10th of September, 1874, I entered the Ogowe River, at Nazareth Bay, one of its several embouchures into the Atlantic, near Cape Lopez, a degree south of the equator.
From Fetichism in West Africa Forty Years' Observations of Native Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau
Some of those refugees settled between the embouchures of the Ural River, others near the mouth of the Don.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by John Rudd
The deltoid outlet is confined to the tributaries, nearly all of them, like "the disembogning Nile," emptying themselves by innumerable embouchures.
From The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America by James Orton
