Plage
[plahzh]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, 19th century
1.
A beach by the sea, especially at a fashionable resort.
2.
(Astronomy) An unusually bright region on the sun.
Examples of Plage in a sentence
"As soon as we unpacked our bags, we took a stroll on the resort’s wide, sandy plage."
"My best childhood memories are at the plage at the resort my family went to every summer in Acapulco."
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