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adjectiveshory (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleterareLying near the shore.
And that as firme as any brazen wall / And more then rocks vpon the shorie sandes
1598, Jorge de Montemayor, translated by Bartholomew Yong, Diana of George of Montemayor, part 2, chapter 7, page 3632 more examples
[…]at the same time were made the shory Rocks and Mountains which are the bars and boundaries of the Sea.
1697, Thomas Burnet, The theory of the earth containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things, page 60The marsh was purpled with his clotted blood / He lay outstretched upon the shory mud
1821 October, “Leisure Hours. No. II. The Battle of the Frogs and Mice.”, in The London Magazine, page 392
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