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embankments

n. (plural of embankment English)

Usage examples of "embankments".

The river reflected the thousand lights of buildings piled along her sides, lamps of the embankments, lanterns of moored barges.

Baldwin seemed to think as he babbled confusedly about Quman soldiers searching the huge tumulus and its twisting embankments, lighting their way with torches.

They left the village and walked up through the embankments to the tumulus.

A dozen adults formed around her and hurried away up through the higher embankments, toward the stone circle.

On the summits of these embankments were the footways, furnished with railings.