embarkment

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English

Etymology

From French embarquement.

Noun

embarkment (countable and uncountable, plural embarkments)

  1. 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.

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