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foreshore

noun/ˈfɔːʃɔː/

C2CEFR level
85/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The strip of land between the high and low water marks of an ordinary tide, generally vested in the Crown.

The Crown Estate owned the foreshore, so the hotel needed a licence to build its jetty across it.

Topic: Conveyancing & land in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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