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clifftop en · NOUN

Etymology

From cliff + top.

Meanings

1. The top of a cliff.
   • They pitched the dragon over the cliff-top, let tide's flow and backwash take the treasure-minder. 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 98:
   • At Berwick I had the privilege of joining Driver Ross Clark for my favourite clifftop run south through Northumberland, to Newcastle. 2020 January 15, Nigel Harris, “HST's East Coast Farewell Tour”, in Rail, page 33:
   • Its streets fan out towards the clifftops, and its sheltered North Landing harbours open-decked fishing boats, called 'cobles'. 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 188, about Flamborough:
   • Its old town rises out of the Aegean Sea towards a clifftop Venetian castle in a jumble of white-washed narrow streets, flat rooftops and balconies that provide a perfect, obstacle-filled arena for parkour. 2022 June 16, Issy Ronald, “Meet the parkour athletes defying fear and gravity at Red Bull Art of Motion”, in CNN, archived from the original on 26 Jun 2022:

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