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語源

French [Term?]

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /dɪˈbuːʃə/, /dɪˈbuːʃɪə/

名詞

debouchure (plural debouchures)

1. The outward opening of a river, creek, valley, or strait.

   Synonyms: debouchment, mouth

   • (Can we date this quote?), Bancroft History of Mexico:

     Garay's project met with approval. It included an extensive system of navigable canals and irrigating ditches, all discharging into main arteries connected with the last collector, the grand canal, which was to have its debouchure at the Ametlac tunnel.

   • 1862, Richard Francis Burton, The City of the Saints, Chapter 1:

     The bluffs of the Missouri are often clothed with vegetation as far as the debouchure of the Platte River.

参照

• “debouchure”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.