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quai

noun

ˈkā

as in dock

a structure used by boats and ships for taking on or landing cargo and passengers the tour boat pulled up to the quai on the left bank of the Seine

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Recent Examples of quai Rick Warner, the director of film studies at the University of North Carolina, deliberately selects films with slow pacing and subtle details, such as Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, a three-hour movie that mostly follows a woman doing chores in her apartment. —

Rose Horowitch, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026 On a recent breezy day, Jérôme Callais wrapped a secondhand biography of Robespierre tightly in cellophane, covering the burgundy leather hardcover with an expert flick of the wrist and positioning it near a weighty tome on Talleyrand inside his dark green bookstand on a quai above the Seine. —

Liz Alderman, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020 Farther up the quai was a former monastery courtyard, overgrown but graceful. —

Bill Buford, The New Yorker, 6 Apr. 2020

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Outside, a 60-foot pool, cabana, and 135-foot yacht-ready dock overlook unobstructed bay views.

— Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Mar. 2026
The sheriff's office said two of the three were able to swim to a dock, but the third person, identified only as a male, did not know how to swim and was not wearing a life jacket.

— Jose Fabian, CBS News, 3 Mar. 2026