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Definition of Escarped
1. escarp [v] - See also: escarp
Lexicographical Neighbors of Escarped
Literary usage of Escarped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1872)
"... surrounded by high escarped cliffs, and then, turning rapidly to the south,
escapes in a deep narrow swift channel, on its journey towards the sea. ..."
2. A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany by John Murray (Firm) (1854)
"Above the winding course of the river, which is bordered with wooded and vine -
clad slopes, rise the escarped peaks crowned with the ruined castles of ..."
3. A Handbook for Travellers in France: Being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany by John Murray (Firm) (1867)
"... surrounded by loopholed ramparts, overlooks the valley from the top of a
singular platform of pudding-stone, escarped on the side facing the river, ..."
4. Transactions of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1871)
"the bottom—this talus being the remains of the escarped rock—are protected ...
escarped edges, very common along the line of outcrop of certain rocks, ..."
5. Archaeologia Cambrensis by Cambrian Archaeological Association, Thomas Rowland Powel, Donald Moore (1856)
"This is remarkably the case with Wat's Dyke, which, near Caergwrle, and again
near Chirk, runs along escarped edges, or rather is replaced by them,—the ..."
6. The Nationalities of Europe by Robert Gordon Latham (1863)
"Some of these arc even more escarped, but they want other advantages which ...
that it is not only so escarped as to be, except at the north end, ..."
7. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon by Adolphe Thiers, D. Forbes Campbell (1894)
"... through hills considerably escarped, and at length, after a thousand windings,
losing itself in the Moskowa. The hills on our left, at the foot of which ..."
8. Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol in the Autumn of 1855 by John Forbes (1856)
"Between this castle- hill and the river, the ridge, at a somewhat lower level,
assumes the shape of a bold promontory, with escarped rocky walls on both ..."
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