English

Noun

embayment ‎(plural embayments)

1. A bay.
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.121:

     The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.

2. the process by which a bay is formed