Word of the day: littoral
Littoral can be a noun or an adjective and refers to the shore of a lake, sea or ocean.
It’s a new word for me and I came across it in a chapter title of the book I’m reading at the moment: “The Storm Of War”, an account of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts. The relevant chapter is about the efforts by the British, Italians and Germans in 1939-1942 to occupy the North African coastline in Libya and Egypt.