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What does escarpment mean?

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Noun
  1. a steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
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The great escarpment is embayed by major valleys, and a belt of mountains lies between it and the coastal plain.
We headed up the Lake Albert escarpment avoiding marching soldiers then stopped for an hour in the Budongo Forest for a walk with crombecs.
It was like an escarpment, sloping up gently on one side and dropping vertically to 90m on the other.
Crossing the Hakos Mountains at the edge of the Namibian escarpment is our greatest challenge.
Perhaps the most striking feature is the steep escarpment that characterizes the northwest-facing edge of the Cotswold Hills.
It is built in a lovely location on the edge of an escarpment looking out over the Vale of York.

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