Corniche describes a coastal road, especially one cut into the side of a cliff.
Corniche describe un camino costero, especialmente uno tallado en el costado de un acantilado.
| Front | corniche \KOR-nish, kor-NEESH\ |
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| Back | noun A coastal road, especially one cut into the side of a cliff. [From French route en corniche, from Italian cornice (frame, ledge), perhaps from Latin cornix (crow), from its resemblance to the beak of a crow. Earliest documented use: 1837.] "The median strip on the corniche has a magical open-air museum. " |
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