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Recent Examples of plage
La Réserve de la Mala, one of the best plages in the area, is worth making the trek (or hopping in a taxi boat) to nearby Cap d’Ail.
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Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2023
Just weeks after Paris hosted it’s annual Open, models and IT girls have been sporting distinctly Francophile hair accessories fit for a weekend a la plage.
—Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 1 July 2017
Lane Nieset, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Sep. 2023
Just weeks after Paris hosted it’s annual Open, models and IT girls have been sporting distinctly Francophile hair accessories fit for a weekend a la plage.
—Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 1 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plage
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Hailing from the peninsula’s steppe interior, mountainous east, and Black Sea littoral, this population tended to be devoutly Muslim and, for the most part, had never been fully at ease with the republic’s secularist founding project.—
Soner Cagaptay,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Feb. 2024
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The historical lands of the Swahili are on east Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral.—
John M. Mugane,
Quartz,
5 Apr. 2022
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The show will delve into swimming’s evolution over the past century in three locations: the pool, the lido, and nature.—
George Nelson for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
12 Dec. 2024
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Escape the ruckus at a beach club, or lido, such as Pettolecchia Il Lido, a luxury spot between Bari and Brindisi.—
Elizabeth Heath,
Travel + Leisure,
3 June 2024
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Fronted by the Swiss Guard, cardinals and other church leaders led the slow procession into the sunlit esplanade as a male choir chanted psalms and prayers in Latin and the great bells of the basilica tolled.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The mid-rise hotel tower was built at the north end of the property over a long pedestal housing a soaring, double-height lobby and a vast, covered esplanade of amenities.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
23 Mar. 2025
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“Plage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plage. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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