embarcadero

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Decay leaves ruin and traces for the memory to linger over; prosperity is unrelenting in its complete and smiling obliteration of the past But Tasajara City, as the embarcadero was now called, had no previous record, and even the former existence of an actual settler like the forgotten Elijah Curtis was unknown to the present inhabitants.

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  1. Spanish, from embarcar, to embark, from Old Spanish, from Medieval Latin imbarcāre; see embark.

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  1. Spanish, from embarcar, embark.
 

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/ɛmbɑrkɑˈdeɪroʊ/
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