embarkment

Though seen only in crude, dusty form during an early March visit, it’s evident the first hole will function as an embarkment, a kind of slow, measured entrance into an immense temple.

"The cruise industry: we had over seven million embarkments last year. A lot of people come through our airports."

Two days before the embarkment of the troops Colonel DeLancey called one morning on the Elder.

And when the time of their embarkment came, there was not sufficient to serve their own turns.

Your running away was, I think, uncalled for, and the embarkment upon the sloop, under the circumstances, was certainly very reprehensible.