Pronunciations
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/ˈbiːt͡ʃi/
Adjective
Pertaining to the material making up the edge of a seashore, as with pebbles, gravel, and sand.
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O God that one might reade the booke of fate, / And ſee the reuolution of the times, / Make mountaines leuell, and the continent / Weary of ſolide firmeneſſe melt it ſelfe / Into the ſea, and other times to ſee, / The beachie girdle of the ocean, / Too wide for Neptunes hips, how chances mockes, / And changes fill the cup of alteration, / With diuers liquors!
Pertaining to a beach or something beach-like.
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Exporters, here's a "beachy" place to get your feet wet. It's close by, and one of the main tourist destinations in the Caribbean.
‘Year-round sunshine practically guaranteed’: Le Mourillon is Toulon’s cool, beachy quarter [title]