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Synonyms for escarpment


Grammar : Noun
Spell : ih-skahrp-muh nt
Phonetic Transcription : ɪˈskɑrp mənt



Définition of escarpment

Origin :
  • 1802, from French escarpment, from escarper "make into a steep slope," from escarpe "slope," from Italian scarpa (see scarp). Earlier in same sense was escarp.
  • noun slope
Example sentences :
  • At length they crossed the escarpment of the hill, and stood upon the summit.
  • Extract from : « The Young Voyageurs » by Mayne Reid
  • Silently he went on climbing the escarpment, digging into the rough rock.
  • Extract from : « The Judas Valley » by Gerald Vance
  • Probably the escarpment that extends from Austin to Eagle Pass.
  • Extract from : « Original Narratives of Early American History » by Vaca and Others
  • The Dunkirk shale loams are found upon the hill or escarpment.
  • Extract from : « The Grapes of New York » by U. P. Hedrick
  • The Downs escarpment was set with gigantic slow-moving wind-wheels.
  • Extract from : « When the Sleeper Wakes » by Herbert George Wells
  • They came out upon the Niagara just north of the Queenston escarpment.
  • Extract from : « Old Trails on the Niagara Frontier » by Frank H. Severance
  • A house is an escarpment, a door is a refusal, a facade is a wall.
  • Extract from : « Les Misrables » by Victor Hugo
  • This presented an escarpment on the river of about nine hundred yards in length, and is familiarly known as Scott's bluffs.
  • Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
  • A few hundred yards below the falls, and on the left bank of the river is an escarpment from which we obtained some specimens.
  • Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont
  • The plain terminates, where we ascended, in an escarpment of vesicular trap-rock, which supplies the fragments of the creek below.
  • Extract from : « The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California » by Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont

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