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
- 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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