foreshore

Etymology

From fore- + shore or fore + shore.

noun

  1. Synonym of intertidal zone.
    It was a blessed little realm. I stopped often in the country towns – Donnybrook, Bridgetown, Busselton, Margaret River — to sit with a cup of coffee or browse through stacks of secondhand books or take a walk along a wooden pier or duney foreshore. 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397

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