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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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n. A road built on a ledge (cliff), ''especially'' along water (a river, sea, etc).
Wikipedia
The Corniche ( Al-Kurnīsh) is a waterfront promenade corniche in Alexandria, Egypt, running along the Eastern Harbour. It is one of the major corridors for traffic in Alexandria. The Corniche is formally designated "26 of July Road" west of Mansheya and "Army Road" east of it; however, these names are little used.
Italian Egyptian architect Pietro Avoscani designed it in 1870.
The western end starts by the Citadel of Qaitbay (built in place of the Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World). It runs for over ten miles and ends by the Montaza Palace.
Corniche is a type of a road running by a mountain side or by a headland.
Corniche (or The Corniche) may refer to the following places:
- Corniche (Abu Dhabi) in the UAE
- Corniche (Alexandria) in Alexandria, Egypt
- Corniche Beirut in Beirut
- Corniche des Crêtes in France
- Dammam Corniche in Dammam
- Doha Corniche in Doha
- Dubai Corniche in Dubai, UAE
- Jeddah Corniche in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
- Corniche Jjilienne in Algeria
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in Marseille, France
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in France
- Shanghai Corniche in Shanghai, China
- Sharjah Corniche in Sharjah, UAE
- The Three Corniches on the Côte d'Azur, France:
- Corniche Infèrieure (or Basse Corniche)
- Moyenne Corniche
- Grande Corniche
- Marine Drive, Mumbai, a similar area in Mumbai (Bombay), India
It may also refer to:
- Rolls-Royce Corniche, a series of automobiles made by Rolls-Royce from 1971 to 2002
The Corniche (or Corniche Road) is located in the city of Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It forms a sweeping curve on the western side of the main Abu Dhabi island and is replete with cycle paths, fountains and park areas. Between 2002 and 2003, land was reclaimed from the sea and the Corniche was extended. Some of the earlier landmarks were demolished in the process. Certain parts of the Corniche have significant deposition of sand, with people using the area as a public beach. Prior to the 1970s, the current area occupied by the Corniche was a beach, where dhows and ships used to anchor and transfer cargo or people; at the time, the Mina Zayed area was not yet constructed.
Marina Mall is located across from the Corniche and can be accessed using a narrow breakwater road. At Marina Mall, the UAE Flag is hoisted and holds the record for being one of the tallest Flag poles in the world.
Lulu Island is a tiny reclaimed island located about a kilometer from the corniche and the Emirates Palace Hotel is at the southern end. There are a number of skyscrapers at the northern end, with newer taller skyscrapers being built on the southern end.
Usage examples of "corniche".
Coming down from a Ligurian fort, by an old mule track that ended on the upper Corniche road, he saw an automobile which had stopped at the foot of the path.
The huge chandeliers as well as the massive decorative corniches were all gone.
The type with cheap apartments on month-to-month, poorly maintained leased Corniches, too much leisure time, schemes masquerading as ideas.
So they got through those funerals as best they could, and meanwhile everything was getting darker, as on the corniche when a black squall approached from over the Hellespontus-Terran nations still sending up unauthorized people and landing them, the UN still threatening, China and Indonesia suddenly at each other's throats, Red ecoteurs blowing things up more and more indiscriminately, recklessly, killing people.
So they got through those funerals as best they could, and meanwhile everything was getting darker, as on the corniche when a black squall approached from over the Hellespontus—Terran nations still sending up unauthorized people and landing them, the UN still threatening, China and Indonesia suddenly at each other’s throats, Red ecoteurs blowing things up more and more indiscriminately, recklessly, killing people.
So they got through those funerals as best they could, and meanwhile everything was getting darker, as on the corniche when a black squall approached from over the Hellespontus—.
It was too far away to see men, but the hulls were darkened in a spiderweb pattern, boarding nets dropped over the side so that embarked troops could climb down to the corniche road.
The armored command car was waiting on the Corniche road ten yards farther inland.
When her meal ended she sat for a long time, listening to them, nursing a last glass of wine and then a coffee, watching the other diners, the leaves overhead, the distant icescape beyond the corniche, the clouds tumbling in over the Hellespontus.
An NFL running back departed in a deep maroon Rolls- Royce Corniche convertible worth $363,000, “made to order,” from the paint to the wood, hide, trim, even the position of the intercrossed Rs in the cockpit.
They puttered into a slip, and walked down a gangplank, and along the dock, up through the marina and into the corniche park.
Then back into Odessa, to the familiar comforts of their apartment and the town, in the burnished light of the southern autumn which was the longest season of the Martian year, also the approach to aphelion, day after day dimmer and dimmer, until aphelion came, on Ls 70, and between then and the winter solstice at Ls 90 was the Ice Festival, and they ice-skated on the white sea ice right under the corniche, looking up at the town’.
Then back into Odessa, to the familiar comforts of their apartment and the town, in the burnished light of the southern autumn which was the longest season of the Martian year, also the approach to aphelion, day after day dimmer and dimmer, until aphelion came, on Ls 70, and between then and the winter solstice at Ls 90 was the Ice Festival, and they ice-skated on the white sea ice right under the corniche, looking up at the town's seafront all drifted with snow, white under black clouds.
The mechanic merges the black Corniche onto the old bypass highway with no passing lane, and already a line of trucks strings together behind us, going the legal speed limit.
They walked or trammed to their downtown jobs, past the fortress mansions behind the corniche, occupied by the visiting metanat executives.