foreshore

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Etymology

From fore- +‎ shore or fore +‎ shore.

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foreshore (plural foreshores)

  1. The part of a shore between high water and low water.
    • 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:
      The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75.
    • 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397:
      It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore.

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