Word of the day: bund
This week, my responsibilities as Chair of the South East Water Customer Panel have dominated my work schedule with no less than four meetings concerning the water sector.
At one of these meetings, I heard an unfamiliar word: bund. It refers to an embankment, often providing a promenade. Apparently the origin of the word is a Hindi term for embankment.
Then I remembered that I had come across the term in the context of The Bund – a stretch of promenade by the Huangpu River in the Chinese metropolis of Shanghai. I’ve visited the city and walked the promenaded twice as recorded here and here.