embarkment
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From French embarquement.
Noun
[edit]embarkment (countable and uncountable, plural embarkments)
- embarkation; the act of setting out
- 1741, Conyers Middleton, The Life of Marcus Tullius Cicero:
- he removed from his Cuman to his Pompeian villa, beyond Naples, which, not being so commodious for an embarkment, would help to lessen the suspicion of the intended flight.
References
[edit]- “embarkment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.