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bankside

[ bangk-sahyd ]

noun

  1. the slope of the bank of a stream or river.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bankside1

First recorded in 1590–1600; bank 1 + side 1
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Example Sentences

The Bankside had for many years been associated in the minds of Londoners with "sports and pastimes."

He went to bed in good health, says Langbaine, and was found dead in the morning, in his own house on the Bankside.

The bankside where the grey orchard twisted its trees, was a steep declivity, long and sharp, dropping down to the garden.

The bear in the Winter's Tale was no doubt a real bear got from a bear pit, near by in the Bankside.

It is pleasant to think of Bankside and the fields beyond it—the pleasure garden of London.

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