[ noun ] the beach at a seaside resort <noun.object>
Plage \Plage\ (pl[=a]l), n. [F., fr. L. plaga.] A region; country. [Obs.] ``The plages of the north.'' --Chaucer.
Diaghilev identified its lack of substance by calling it une operette dansee when he presented it during the 1924/25 seasons, with the athletic, magnetically beautiful presence of Anton Dolin its justification as the darling of the plage, le Beau Gosse.