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Corniche
Road on the side of a cliff or mountain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Corniche (disambiguation).
For the architectural feature, see Cornice.
For snow feature, see Snow cornice.
A corniche is a road on the side of a cliff or mountain, with the ground rising up on one side of the roadway and falling away on the other. The English language has adopted the word from the French term route à corniche or "road on a ledge", itself derived from the Italian cornice, for "ledge".
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