embayment

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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From em- + bay + -ment.

[301] To the north, scarcely broken as yet by the scattered buildings of the infant New Town, the outlook commanded that “incomparable prospect” which delighted Colonel Mannering, as he gazed from the window of Counsellor Pleydell’s library on “the Frith of Forth with its islands; the embayment which is terminated by the Law of North Berwick, and the varied shores of Fife, indenting with a hilly outline the clear blue horizon.”[302] Every Sunday during the hours of service the streets were silent and solitary, as if a plague had laid waste the city. — Footsteps of Dr. Johnson (Scotland), George Birkbeck Norman Hill

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