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causeway

[kawz-wey] / ˈkɔzˌweɪ /
NOUN
dike/dyke
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NOUN
embankment
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It being a little early for blackjack at the towering Beau Rivage, where I’d booked a room for the night, I instead crossed the causeway to nearby Ocean Springs.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 7, 2026

Illustrations from the era show Malinche, serving as translator, as a prominent figure during Cortés’ epochal meeting with Moctezuma on Nov. 8, 1519, on a causeway leading to Tenochtitlán.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026

At the Auckland Outboard Boating Club, members were having a Wednesday-night drink when one of them noticed a Zodiac lying abandoned on the causeway.

From Slate • Jul. 22, 2025

What was once Great Britain is now a quarantined island, cut off from the mainland and protected by an armed causeway that can only be accessed during low tide.

From Salon • Jun. 20, 2025

The magnificent Pharos lighthouse guided ships into the Great Harbor on the east side of the causeway and the Harbor of Good Return on the west.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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