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
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.
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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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for quai
Noun
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The property includes an indoor shooting range, pool house, guest house and a 4,000 square foot dock.—
Dana Hunsinger Benbow,
USA Today,
4 Sep. 2025
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When the barrels reached their loading dock, instead of rich complexity, the whiskey tasted of grass and hay.—
Gege Reed,
Louisville Courier Journal,
3 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The port planned to use it to clean up and remediate polluted areas, build facilities for handling the turbine parts, dredge the waterway and build a larger wharf capable of handling pieces of steel longer than a football field.—
Lauren Sommer,
NPR,
31 Aug. 2025
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The infrastructure humans build in the water ‒ houses, piers, wharves, jetties, and even oil rigs ‒ create new habitats for juvenile jellyfish, called polyps, to attach and grow, Bologna said.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Later phases will include a disc golf course, a dog park, fishing piers, kayak and paddleboard access, a bird watching area, a hammock pole area and a lake deck, according to Rawn.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
8 Sep. 2025
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White women in sportswear jogged along the pier.—
Bryan Washington,
New Yorker,
7 Sep. 2025
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Seaports will have nearby seabed dredged and quays constructed to accommodate naval and transport vessels.—
Ryan Chan,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Aug. 2025
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Then, as evening falls, locals gather with ice cream cones on the quay and the town glows in the hush of a Bornholm sunset.—
Lewis Nunn,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
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“Quai.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quai. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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