plage
noun
1plɑːʒ dated A beach by the sea, especially at a fashionable resort.This summer, heart-warming scenes like the above are being played out across the plages and dance floors of Europe, in the cantinas and tapas bars....
- Still they are complaining about the traffic, even though they'll be on the real plage somewhere.
- Meanwhile, down on the plage at the other end of the avenue, fights had broken out as ticketless fans watched the match on a big screen.
2pleɪdʒ Astronomy An unusually bright region on the sun.Prominences, flares, plages, and other features of the solar chromosphere can be observed in hydrogen light....
- Prominences and plages are structures that occur above the photosphere of the Sun.
Origin
French.