revetment
noun
re·vet·ment
ri-ˈvet-mənt 
1
: a facing (as of stone or concrete) to sustain an embankment
2
: embankment
especially
: a barricade to provide shelter (as against bomb fragments or strafing)
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That’s why the nonprofit took legal action against Ogden Dunes, the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and others over the town’s plan, now abandoned, to put a rock revetment along the shoreline.
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
The revetment protects a section of tracks just north of Camp Pendleton below the Cyprus Shore community in San Clemente, where previously a slow-moving landslide carried the rails about 28 inches seaward in 2021 and 2022.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2025
From there, a lawn stretches out to a classic white picket fence and a private patch of sand atop a rock revetment that was put in place to slow beach erosion.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
The citizen advocacy group has been championing sand replenishment over the use of rock revetments in OCTA’s plans to provide a buffer between the ocean and the tracks.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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Doug Ross, Chicago Tribune, 10 Jan. 2026
The revetment protects a section of tracks just north of Camp Pendleton below the Cyprus Shore community in San Clemente, where previously a slow-moving landslide carried the rails about 28 inches seaward in 2021 and 2022.
—Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2025
From there, a lawn stretches out to a classic white picket fence and a private patch of sand atop a rock revetment that was put in place to slow beach erosion.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 7 Aug. 2025
The citizen advocacy group has been championing sand replenishment over the use of rock revetments in OCTA’s plans to provide a buffer between the ocean and the tracks.
—Laylan Connelly, Oc Register, 13 July 2025
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“Revetment.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/revetment. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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