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cliffside

n. The side of a cliff.

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Cliffside can refer to:

Canada
  • Cliffside, Toronto, a neighborhood
United States
  • Cliffside (Palisades, New York), listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)
  • Cliffside, Texas, an unincorporated community in Potter County, Texas
  • Cliffside (Scottsville, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
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  • Cliffside, an online video series and feature film.
Cliffside (Palisades, New York)

Cliffside, also known as H. E. Lawrence Estate, is a historic home located at Palisades, Rockland County, New York. It was designed by J. Cleveland Cady and was built in 1876. The estate house is a two-story, "L"-shaped, Flemish Colonial Revival style stone dwelling. It features a steep cross-gambrel roof and a one-story wraparound verandah. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.

Cliffside (Scottsville, Virginia)

Cliffside is a historic home located near Scottsville, Albemarle County, Virginia. It was built in 1835, and is a two-story, brick central passage plan dwelling on a high basement in the Federal style. A side passage rear ell was added between about 1850 and 1860. Both sections have low-pitched gable roofs and the front facade features an original single-story, tetrastyle Greek Revival portico. Also on the property are a contributing structure, the "Ginger House", a one-story frame office/schoolhouse probably erected in the mid-19th century, and the family cemetery. The house served as General Philip Sheridan's headquarters during the American Civil War.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is located in the Scottsville Historic District.

Usage examples of "cliffside".

Further they are skilled with primitive weapons and have constructed an aesthetically spectacular village that clings to the cliffsides of a gorge, protected from the elements by shell-like canopies.

Some ineffectual snorting sounds came from their master, a middle-aged man with a basin-cut hairdo and a face like a cliffside, who apparently thought he was controlling his charges when finally one lay and the other sat tensely, both with snarls locked in their throats, the bullterrier with teeth bared at a calico cat a youngish couple had wedged between them.

The nexus of cold that was Luhaine came and went at juxtaposed intervals, tacking over the cliffside below, as he selected which plants should be harvested.

Her plan had worked, and now she was walking into possibly the seediest tavern in all of Cliffside.

Their orders, once it was determined that Kermadec intended to fight, were to destroy as much of Taupo Rough as possible and then lay siege to the cliffside redoubt.

Colorado raged gloriously below the cliffsides, leaping and frothing in great silted billows and surges, flinging rocks and driftwood with tigerlike abandon.

Other team members attached catch nets and grappling cables to the piece of stone before it could snap free of the cliffside, while the strongest workers used methane-powered jackhammers and laser cutters the size of cannon to split the rock.

Evasion is his only hope, up the cliffside, and then we will have passed him, and so he will not succeed in reaching Silver Lake before us.

Beyond it and on his left, a river had cut a notch a thousand paces or more deep into the cliffside, down to what must have been a ledge of some sort, over which it then plunged another thousand paces to a mist-shrouded valley floor.

Not that she wasn't adventurous, but close to the cliffside on which the glacier hung, underbrush grew so thickly along the banks that the river was inaccessible without tangling in a lot of brambles and nettles.

He climbed down slowly over the cliffside, hand over hand, exercising extreme caution.

The cliffside flashed past him--a blur--and far away were the sounds of birds screeching.

She ran lightly beside me as we hastened after Thor down the first steps of the narrow cliffside stair.

He should be at either the Overclan Seating complex in Unity City, the Thrr-family shrine near Cliffside Dales, or at the Frr-family town of Reeds Village.

Cyclics ago their paths had split: Thrr-gilag had become a searcher specializing in alien cultures and artifacts, while Thrr-tulkoj had chosen to remain close to home, rising to the position of chief protector for the Thrr-family shrine near Cliffside Dales.