revetment|revetments in English

noun

[re·vet·ment || rɪ'vetmənt]

embankment, large mound or wall used to as a levee or supporting wall; cement or stone facing of an embankment

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1. In the 19th century a revetment was added to strengthen the decaying wall.

2. These techniques--seawalls, groynes, detached breakwaters, and revetments—represent more than 70% of protected shoreline in Europe.

3. Modern seawalls aim to re-direct most of the incident energy in the form of sloping revetments, resulting in low reflected waves and much reduced turbulence.

4. When he died in 1337, he had only finished the lower floor with its marble external revetment: geometric patterns of white marble from Carrara, green marble from Prato and red marble from Siena.

5. Shoreline Armoring, the practice of constructing bulkheads (also known as seawalls) and rock revetments, disrupts the natural process of erosion, which supplies much of the sand and gravel that forms and maintains our beaches