Escarpment - Longman Dictionary

English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 escarpment From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: Geography, Geologyescarpmente‧scarp‧ment /ɪˈskɑːpmənt $ -ɑːr-/ noun [countable]    SGa high steep slope or cliff between two levels on a hill or mountainExamples from the Corpusescarpment• Starch, unable to stop, slid 20 feet to the edge of an escarpment.• In southern Britain there are many such sudden changes mainly between clay lowlands and escarpments of chalk or oolitic limestone.• It is possible that a similar flexural effect is associated with great escarpments along passive continental margins.• Three cavalry companies gave pursuit, but were scattered when the warriors turned to defend a lava escarpment.• The outward journey was quite uneventful as far as the Wadi Tamit, a steep defile leading down the escarpment on to the coastal plain.• If they had climbed down the side of the escarpment he had no doubt that she would not have made it.Origin escarpment (1800-1900) escarp “slope” ((17-21 centuries)), from French escarpe, from Italian scarpa Exercises Exercises

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