escarpment
Noun
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Noun
escarpment (plural escarpments)
- A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
- Hypernyms: cliff
- French: escarpement
- German: Steilhang, Böschung, Abhang
- Russian: отко́с
- Spanish: escarpadura, escarpa, escarpe
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