embayment
noun/ɪmˈbeɪmənt/
Etymology
From em- + bay + -ment.
Definitions
A bay. (the water)
- The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)
A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.
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The process by which a bay is formed.
The neighborhood
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