headlanded
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]headlanded (not comparable)
- Having a headland or headlands.
- 1884, Bayard Taylor, Melodies of Verse, page 55:
- The many-headlanded, the temple-crowned, / Which the great purple sea so whispered round
- 2003, James R. Goff, Scott Nichol, Helen L. Rouse, The New Zealand Coast, page 297:
- There are headlanded rocky shores, sandy and mixed sand/gravel beaches, beaches of quartzto/feldspathic and iron sands, huge sand barriers, dune fields, coastal lagoons, tidal inlets, river mouths, fiords, and a continental shelf […]