Digue

Digue, or Dyke, a great longdrawn-out breakwater against whose cemented walls pound the furies of the North Sea with such a virulence and force as to make one seasick even on land.

The Automobilist Abroad

I shall stay the night here -- put up at one of the hotels on the Digue, dine, and get through the evening pleasantly at the Kursaal -- sure to be _something_ going on.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 4, 1892 Various

The palm is still with Monte Carlo, but, for August at any rate, Ostende, with its Digue, its hotels and terrace cafés and restaurants, is the very glass of fashion and fashionables.

The Automobilist Abroad

Grande Digue, of Shédiac (Gédaique), etc., who founded a college at

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Thursday last to the préfet of the Basses-Alpes, who sent that courier straight on to me, telling me that he and General Loverdo, who is in command of the troops in that district, promptly evacuated Digue because they were not certain of the loyalty of the garrison.

The Bronze Eagle A Story of the Hundred Days Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

The long white Digue, the towers, the domes of the casinos and hotels, the high, flat fronts of the houses showed soaked in light, quivering with light.

The Belfry May Sinclair 1904

Nella walked on the Digue for a few minutes to watch it the better.

The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett 1899

Elorn clear around the ramparts to Lannion Bay, where the ice-sheathed iron-clads lay with banked fires off the Port Militaire, and the goulet guard-boats patrolled the Port de Commerce from the Passe de l'Ouest to the hook on the Digue and clear around to Cap Espagnol.

The Maids of Paradise 1899

But yesterday I saw the lady to whom I have referred driving on the Digue.

The Grand Babylon Hotel Arnold Bennett 1899

From this you will gather that I have a full belief that Plymouth Breakwater will last very long, and that the Digue of Cherbourg, at least its upper wall, will not last long.

Autobiography Airy, George Biddell, Sir 1896