coast
/koʊst/ noun A2- The edge of the land where it meets an ocean, sea, gulf, bay, or large lake. · The rocky coast of Maine has few beaches.· a town on the coast of Trinidad
Plural coasts
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A delicious zephyr played along the coasts of the Mediterranean, and wafted from shore to shore the sweet perfume of plants, mingled with the fresh smell of the sea.
As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent tempest arose in which the ship was wrecked and he, his Monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim for their lives.
But it was not upon Corsica, the very houses of which he could distinguish; or on Sardinia; or on the Island of Elba, with its historical associations; or upon the almost imperceptible line that to the experienced eye of a sailor alone revealed the coast of Genoa the proud, and Leghorn the commercial, that he gazed.
I went too; but as I was older than Fernand, and had just married my poor wife, I was only sent to the coast.
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