Waterfront

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1. The land alongside a body of water.
• 1910, w, The Purchase Price Chapter 1, With just the turn of a shoulder she indicated the water front, where, at the end of the dock on which they stood, lay the good ship, Mount Vernon, river packet, the black smoke already pouring from her stacks.
2. The dockland district of a town.