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embarcadere

embarcadere

See also: embarcadère

English

Noun

embarcadere (plural embarcaderes)

  1. Alternative spelling of embarcadère
    • 1849, Peter Lund Simmonds, Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany, page 311:
      ...there are only from five to six leagues from that port to the embarcadere of Rio Naipi...
    • 1985, Michael Anthony, First in Trinidad, page 108:
      An embarcadere (an improvised wharf) was established at that point, and even today in the 1980s the place is known as "Embarcadere".
    • 2006, Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone That the Builder Refused, page 128:
      At last T found Dessalines down at the port, walking back and forth along the embarcadere.

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