Chesapeake Bay

English

Proper noun

Chesapeake Bay

1. An inlet of the Atlantic, in the United States. An estuary lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the states of Maryland and Virginia; separated from the Atlantic by the Delmarva peninsula.
   • 2016, Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing, Penguin Books (2017), page 111:

     Jo jumped off the boat and looked behind him at the beautiful Chesapeake Bay, at the large, imposing ships that lined the Fellʼs Point shipyards.

Further reading

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