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Landfall   /lˈændfˌɔl/   Listen
Landfall

noun
1.
The seacoast first sighted on a voyage (or flight over water).
2.
The first sighting of land from the sea after a voyage (or flight over water).





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"Landfall" Quotes from Famous Books



... astonishment; "send little Magnet ahead as a lookout, while two lubbers, like you and me, lie-to to see what sort of a landfall she will make! ...
— The Pathfinder - The Inland Sea • James Fenimore Cooper
... was indicative of bitter disappointment. It is these outbursts of devotion to a great burning ideal that give an impulse to the world. His anxiety when he made his landfall and was informed by scouts sent to meet him that the allied squadrons had not been heard of was intense. It was not until then that his vigorous mind was smitten with the possibility of the French having cheated him by going to Jamaica. Orde had been superseded by Collingwood, and was stationed ...
— Drake, Nelson and Napoleon • Walter Runciman
... we had seen in the morning was the south-east extremity of the island, the very landfall made by one of its first discoverers. [Footnote: There is in Strabo an account of a voyage made by a citizen of the Greek colony of Marseilles, in the time of Alexander the Great, through the Pillars of Hercules, along the coasts of France and Spain, up the English Channel, and so across ...
— Letters From High Latitudes • The Marquess of Dufferin (Lord Dufferin)


Words linked to "Landfall" :   sea-coast, seacoast, seashore, sighting, coast


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