quay
/kiː/ sustantivo C1En español: muelle, embarcadero
- A stone or concrete structure on navigable water used for loading and unloading vessels; a wharf. · moor up against the quay
Plural quays
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On streets and fields and harbour quays,
The shipowner, smiling, followed him with his eyes until he saw him spring out on the quay and disappear in the midst of the throng, which from five o’clock in the morning until nine o’clock at night, swarms in the famous street of La Canebière,—a street of which the modern Phocéens are so proud that they say with all the gravity in the world, and with that accent which gives so much character to what is said, “If Paris had La Canebière, Paris would be a second Marseilles.” On turning round the owner saw Danglars behind him, apparently awaiting orders, but in reality also watching the young sailor,—but there was a great difference in the expression of the two men who thus followed the movements of Edmond Dantès.
I had gone on the quay to match a piece of mulberry cloth, when I met friend Danglars.
Through the grating, however, Dantès saw they were passing through the Rue Caisserie, and by the Rue Saint-Laurent and the Rue Taramis, to the quay.
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