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Escarpment

//ɪˈskɑɹp.mənt// noun

Noun

1
A steep descent or declivity; steep face or edge of a ridge; ground about a fortified place, cut away nearly vertically to prevent hostile approach.
"After the canyons, the most remarkable features of the country are the long lines of cliffs. These are bold escarpments scores or hundreds of miles in length,—great geographic steps, often hundreds or thousands of feet in altitude, presenting steep faces of rock, often vertical."
2
a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification wordnet
3
a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge; usually formed by erosion wordnet

Borrowed from French escarpement. By surface analysis, escarp + -ment.

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