alongshore
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- At or along a shore or coast. [from 18th c.]
- 1926, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Penguin, published 2000, page 60:
- On Sunday morning while church bells rang in the villages alongshore, the word and its mistress returned to Gatsby's house and twinkled hilariously on his lawn.