embarked

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The lower section, from the embanked waterfront to the boulevards, is the French quarter, once the hub of colonial power.

From Washington Post • Apr. 22, 2022

In the Ganges Brahmaputra delta in Bangladesh and India, home to 170 million people, the surviving wetlands are up to 1.5 metres above the embanked and reclaimed land.

From The Guardian • Aug. 6, 2015

The interstices of the country between these embanked heaths were occupied by water, rocks and marshes, producing abundance of firs intermixed with some birches, all covered with black and white filamentous Lichens.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Linn?, Carl von

Thither we spurted, Dick studying a plan of the city as we flew along the straight road embanked above the sand.

From The Car of Destiny by Both, Armand

The road follows the direction of the river, sometimes running along the cliff, which once embanked it, and sometimes descending to the water's edge.

From Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe by Bingley, William