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2 Promenade des Anglais
The seaside esplanade at Nice, on the Côte d'Azur. The esplanade took its name in the early nineteenth century, when the little fishing port of Nice (Nissa) began to become popular with the first tourists from England. Whereas the local population had seen the sea as a source of their livelihood, the first Anglais who came to stay saw it as leisure facility, and the sea front as a place to be admired. The beach being pebbly and difficult to walk on, the first tourists chose instead to walk back and forth just above the beach line, thus creating one of the world's first seaside promenades.Dictionnaire Français-Anglais. Agriculture Biologique > Promenade des Anglais
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Pebbly — Peb bly, a. Full of pebbles; pebbled. A hard, pebbly bottom. Johnson. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
pebbly — [peb′lē, peb′əl ē] adj. pebblier, pebbliest 1. having many pebbles 2. having a bumpy, uneven surface or grain resembling pebbles … English World dictionary
pebbly — /peb lee/, adj. 1. having or covered with pebbles: the pebbly beach at Nice. 2. (of a texture, design, etc.) having a granular or pebbled surface: shoes with a pebbly finish. [1590 1600; PEBBLE + Y1] * * * … Universalium
pebbly — [[t]pe̱bəli[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n A pebbly beach is covered in pebbles. ...the lake s pebbly shore … English dictionary
pebbly — adjective a) Of or containing pebbles. The balance of that day we spent in continuing a minute and fruitless exploration of the monotonous coast. There was not another break in the frowning cliffsnot even another minute patch of pebbly beach. b)… … Wiktionary
pebbly — peb|bly [ pebli ] adjective containing a lot of pebbles: a pebbly beach … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
pebbly — UK [ˈpeb(ə)lɪ] / US adjective containing a lot of pebbles a pebbly beach … English dictionary
pebbly — pebble ► NOUN 1) a small stone made smooth and round by the action of water or sand. 2) (before another noun ) informal with very thick lenses: pebble glasses. DERIVATIVES pebbly adjective. ORIGIN Old English … English terms dictionary
pebbly — adjective see pebble I … New Collegiate Dictionary
pebbly — Synonyms and related words: arenaceous, arenarious, breccial, brecciated, craggy, crystal, crystalline, grainy, granular, granulate, granulated, gravelly, gritty, lapideous, lithoid, lithoidal, monolithic, pebbled, porphyritic, rock ribbed, rock… … Moby Thesaurus
pebbly — peb·bly || peblɪ adj. covered with small stones … English contemporary dictionary
