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corniche
[ kawr-nish, kawr-neesh ]
noun
- a winding road cut into the side of a steep hill or along the face of a coastal cliff.
corniche
/ ˈkɔːnɪʃ /
noun
- a coastal road, esp one built into the face of a cliff
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of corniche1
Example Sentences
When the lights go up on a Kennedy creation, you strap in for a gambol along a singular corniche.
And in less than two hours, we are driving along a palm-lined corniche that runs along a magnificent coast.
One could drink coffee—and Libyans drink it all day—or walk along the spectacular corniche.
They play poker with the Corniche landscape, that people come from all over the world to see, right before their eyes.
The boy with the donkey turned off to the main road and continued the steep climb toward the Grande Corniche.
Tar has at last been brought to rescue the charms of the Lower Corniche from being completely destroyed.
For an hour over a road beside which the Corniche is commonplace indeed, the gharry rolled on.
Evidently my brother passed through Aix, as well as along the Corniche, under "different circumstances!"
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