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Escarpment

noun

A long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion. Synonym: scarp.

A steep artificial slope in front of a fortification. Synonyms: escarp, protective embankment, scarp.

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"Escarpment" Quotes from Famous Books

... he beheld Waterloo once more, two years later, exclaimed, "They have altered my field of battle!" Where the great pyramid of earth, surmounted by the lion, rises to-day, there was a hillock which descended in an easy slope towards the Nivelles road, but which was almost an escarpment on the side of the highway to Genappe. The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; ...

— Les Miserables - Complete in Five Volumes • Victor Hugo

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Words linked to "Escarpment" : slope, escarp, side, munition, fortification, incline