embaymentn.
/ɛmˈbeɪmənt/ 1.
a. The action of forming into a bay.
b. concrete. A portion of water or coast forming a bay.
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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf
bay1385
bosomc1400
gulfc1400
gouffre1477
break?1520
reach1526
bight1555
opening1576
sine1605
breach1611
cod1611
traversea1645
sinus1684
embayment1815
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering III. i. 15 The line of sea-coast, with all its varied curves, indentures, and embayments.
1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 10 Occasionally lingering in some embayment..to collect their waters.
1879 J. Le Conte Elements Geol. (new ed.) 525 The Mississippi probably commenced to run into the Tertiary Embayment.
1884 St. Nicholas II. 534 It is a larger embayment than that where the gig came to grief.
2. A bay-like recess (of a window).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > types of window > [noun] > bay or oriel window > recess of
oriela1400
window bay1597
embayment1848
1848 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 15 102 The deep embayment of her favourite window.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
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