embarcadero

[ em-bahr-kuh-dair-oh ]

noun,plural em·bar·ca·de·ros.
  1. a pier, wharf, or landing place.

  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a waterfront section in San Francisco: piers and seafood restaurants.

Origin of embarcadero

1
An Americanism first recorded in 1840–50; from Latin American Spanish, Spanish: “pier, docking place,” equivalent to embarcad(o), past participle of embarcar “to launch, embark” (see embark) + -ero, from Latin -ārium noun suffix (see -arium)

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How to use embarcadero in a sentence

  • I'm goin' to have a town along the embarcadero that'll lay over any town in Contra Costa.

  • From the embarcadero we walked, under the influence of the rays of an almost broiling sun, four miles to the town of Sonoma.

  • We crossed the Sacramento at the embarcadero, swimming our horses, and passing ourselves over in a small canoe.

  • He glanced backwards almost tenderly in the direction of Los Cuervos, and then turned his head towards the embarcadero.

    On the Frontier | Bret Harte
  • As I was saying (when that minister switched me off), I was strolling along the embarcadero.

    Turns about Town | Robert Cortes Holliday