[f. as prec. + -MENT.]
1. a. The action of forming into a bay. b. concr. A portion of water or coast forming a bay.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xl. The line of sea-coast, with all its varied curves, indentures, and embayments.
1853. G. Johnston, Nat. Hist. E. Bord., I. 10. Occasionally lingering in some embayment … to collect their waters.
1879. Le Conte, Elem. Geol., 525. The Mississippi probably commenced to run into the Tertiary embayment.
1884. St. Nicholas, II. 534. It is a larger embayment than that where the gig came to grief.
2. A bay-like recess (of a window).
1848. J. Wilmer, Fürstenruhe, in Tait’s Mag., XV. Feb., 102/2. She was sitting in her rose-broidered boudoir, in the deep embayment of her favourite window.
