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Answer for the clue "Coastal resort ", 7 letters:
riviera

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Mediterranean seacoast around Genoa, 1630s, from Italian riviera , literally "bank, shore" (see river ). In extended use, the coast from Marseilles to La Spezia, which became popular 19c. as a winter resort. Thence adopted (sometimes ironically) in reference ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Riviera is a song written and composed by Cy Coleman and Joseph McCarthy, Jr. in 1956. The song was made popular by cabaret singer Mabel Mercer but the version best known is that performed by Blossom Dearie . Category:1956 songs Category:Songs with ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any coastal area popular with tourists.

Usage examples of riviera.

The princess was on her way to the Riviera but promised to stop in Albania on her return in September, bringing with her a young grandson as a playmate for Nubar.

Ignacio Bozal had suddenly appeared in Acapulco with a bankroll big enough to buy and renovate a broken-down resort hotel and open for business just before the birth of the Mexican Riviera.

He saw it now as a small and simple place, for small and simple people, but with pleasant rooms, and food that should be an event--the real descendant of such inns as the Cat and Fiddle, with no bastard union with the Riviera.

And a young man entered whom we recognised at once as the chief clerk in the Foreign Department of the Credit Marseillais, the principal bank all along the Riviera.

Later, another small listening post, made up of vans the size of semitrailer trucks, was established at Dahme on the German Riviera.

Kennedy had said not to a press conference in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, nor to the sixty-nine million Americans who had voted, but to just one American that interested Tom Jefferson more when, on the ninth day of November 1960, he left his home in Miami Shores and drove to the safe house at 6312 Riviera Drive in Coral Gables to meet Frank Sorges and to hear that much-vaunted tape.

Caroline Abbott had the greatest difficulty in dissuading her from the Riviera.

He could take the road to Ventimiglia thus taking advantage of the new autoroutes westwards along the Riviera or take the shorter but more winding direct route to Nice.

Together with Sojourn and his daughter, I took Athena and a guitar, and we hit the open cafes up and down the Italian Riviera.

The scavenging squirrels were too heavy to climb and sit upon the privet-they swayed, they swooped-but they had learned to cling to and inch along the clothesline, perilously upside down yet agile as French Riviera diamond thieves, to attain the prize.

And the Riviera went into it with the excellent sound of blubs, by God.

It was one of many official holiday datchas along the favourite stretch of mountainous coastline that is part of the Russian Riviera.

There was an inverted symmetry: Riviera puts the dreamgirl together, the dreamgirl takes him apart.

Janet had put down earnest money on a Buick Riviera at Quality Pre-owned Cars in Farmington and had asked Chee to test-drive it for her.

The Riviera, with its jet-setters and high-roller socialites, has been drug-dealer heaven for a long, long time.