foulness

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The Broomway is a route across flat sands from the shore near Southend-on-Sea to Foulness Island and is home to a Ministry of Defence firing range.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

Foulness, for the most part, wins the day, and thus the beautiful paean, by Duncan and Banquo, to the home of the Macbeths—“a pleasant seat,” where “the air is delicate”—is expunged.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 7, 2015

In East Yorkshire there is a flood alert on the River Foulness and Market Weighton canal.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2012

"Foulness" and "shedding his liquor" are not necessarily contingent; but fulness and overflowing are.

From Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

When this Agitation is over, the Sand, in falling to the Bottom of the Vessel, will attract some of the Foulness suspended in the Water.

From Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by Tissot, S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David)