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raised beach

British  

noun

  1. a wave-cut platform raised above the shoreline by a relative fall in the water level

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Beach dunes flattened by earlier storms allowed storm surge to reach beneath some of Galveston’s raised beach houses.

From Washington Times Oct. 10, 2020

And beach dunes flattened by Hurricane Laura in August and Tropical Storm Beta last month allowed storm surge to reach beneath the raised beach houses in Galveston’s West End.

From Washington Times Oct. 10, 2020

The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

In the vicinity a good example of raised beach, some 10 ft. above present sea-level, is to be seen.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

The raised beach, on which Robert Redmayne had been first spoken, was about five miles off, and Giuseppe suspected that Redmayne's hiding-place would be found to lie still farther to the west.

From The Red Redmaynes by Phillpotts, Eden

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