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tidewater
has definitions from the field of geography
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[ noun ] (geography) low-lying coastal land drained by tidal streams
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; so_that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper_limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old_South from the new , but with , of_course , important minority enclaves . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (geography) the coastal plain of the South: eastern parts of Virginia and North Carolina and South Carolina and Georgia
Used in print (Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)Old attitudes are held more tenaciously in the Tidewater than the Piedmont ; so_that a line running down the length of the South marking the upper_limits of tidewater would roughly divide the Old_South from the new , but with , of_course , important minority enclaves . Related terms |
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