embayment

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noun

1

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.

2

The shoreline of a bay, an indentation in a shoreline. (the land, not the water)

3

A topographical feature that used to be a bay, like the Mississippi embayment.

4

The process by which a bay is formed.

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noun — an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller

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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 r

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