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名詞

clifftop (plural clifftops)

1. The top of a cliff.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:

     Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'.

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 98:

     They pitched the dragon
     over the cliff-top, let tide's flow
     and backwash take the treasure-minder.

   • 2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33:

     At Berwick I had the privilege of joining Driver Ross Clark for my favourite clifftop run south through Northumberland, to Newcastle.

   • 2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 26 June 2022:

     Its old town rises out of the Aegean Sea towards a clifftop Venetian castle in a jumble of white-washed narrow streets, flat rooftops and balconies that provide a perfect, obstacle-filled arena for parkour.