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語源

From fore- +‎ shore or fore +‎ shore.

名詞

foreshore (plural foreshores)

1. The part of a shore between high water and low water.
   • 1951 August, P. W. Gentry, “Cliff Railways”, in Railway Magazine, page 514:

     The line was constructed at a cost of £8,000, and ascended from the foreshore, near the Spa, to the Esplanade in 284 ft. at a gradient of 1 in 1.75.

   • 2000, Bill Bryson, Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country, page 397:

     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.

同意語

• intertidal zone

等位語

• backshore

アナグラム

• forehorse