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Beach, a word that has totally changed meaning

8/19/2021, 10:41:02 AM


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What did "beach" mean?

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"The

beaches

are dangerous ..." This is the first information provided by Furetière in his Universal Dictionary published in 1690. In fact, the beach is, in fact, as a "sea shore without harbors & roadsteads, which has no promontory to get into the shelter, which does not have enough water to keep the vessels afloat, ”he explains.

It is a reality, even before they become, belatedly, a place of leisure, the beaches represent above all the obsession of the sailors who prefer by far the rocky coasts.

Watch out for these beaches, which are particularly "dangerous during a storm", which push boats onto these shallow waters of insufficient depth.

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In addition, another context may surprise when one reads at La Fontaine the following verses, quoted by Littré: "Such we see that a lion king of the ardent beach, / Of blood and altered murder, hunters a confident look.

»A lion and hunters on a beach, that can

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