embarcadere

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A form of embarcadère — A pier, a wharf.

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Meanings

nounembarcadere (plural embarcaderes)

plural embarcaderes

  1. alternativeAlternative spelling of embarcadère.

    At last T found Dessalines down at the port, walking back and forth along the embarcadere.

    2006, Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone That the Builder Refused, page 128
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    ...there are only from five to six leagues from that port to the embarcadere of Rio Naipi...

    1849, Peter Lund Simmonds, Simmonds's colonial magazine and foreign miscellany, page 311

    An embarcadere (an improvised wharf) was established at that point, and even today in the 1980s the place is known as "Embarcadere".

    1985, Michael Anthony, First in Trinidad, page 108

    Synonyms: wharf, pier

Synonyms & antonyms

Origin

  1. Frenchembarcadère
  2. Englishembarcadere

From French embarcadère.

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APA

embarcadere. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embarcadere

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Chicago

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