debarkment

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   historical: the act of going or putting people or goods ashore from a ship; disembarkation

   The colonists claimed the island from the moment of their debarkment.

Formed from debark and -ment. Debark was borrowed from French debarquer, built from de- and barque, 'small ship or boat.' English used debarkment for a landing or disembarkation from at least the early modern period, but debarkation and disembarkation later became the usual nouns.

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