thumb|A barachois at South Lake, Prince Edward Island.
thumb|A barachois at South Lake, Prince Edward Island.
A barachois is a type of coastal lagoon partially or totally separated from the ocean by a sand or shingle bar. The term is used in Atlantic Canada, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Réunion, and Mauritius. On Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory, it describes narrow-mouthed saltwater wetlands within the lagoon.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).