beach

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After just an hour the beach was a winter beach, cold and gray and the dead kelp like the hair of the drowned, and it stayed that way despite all attempts.

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  1. noun The shore of a body of water, especially when sandy or pebbly.
  2. noun The sand or pebbles on a shore.
  3. noun The zone above the water line at a shore of a body of water, marked by an accumulation of sand, stone, or gravel that has been deposited by the tide or waves.
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  • Years ago, the beach was a broad expanse, sporadically broken up by a pair of bathers or a family building a sand castle. —  Simple Justice
  • Also on the beach was a topless Kiefer Sutherland and his bff Rin-Tin-Tin! —  Socialite Life
  • • The only vendors on the beach are the Scopes guys. —  Blog updates
  • The housing market may be in the doldrums but it seems the Kiwi dream of owning a place on the beach is as strong as ever.
  • The housing market may be in the doldrums but it seems the Kiwi dream of owning a place on the beach is as strong …
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  1. Perhaps Middle English beche, stream, from Old English bece.

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  1. Formerly also beech, beatch, baich, baiche, bache; first in early modern English, apparently dial., with the meaning first given. Origin unknown.
  2. from beach, n.
 

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