verb/a.kɔs.te/
to come ashore; to lay something next to another object; to approach someone; to interrupt someone (especially a stranger, in the street)
“Vous accostez souvent les filles comment vous m'avez accosté ?”
Synonyms: arriver, juxtaposer, aborder
From a- + Old French coste + -er. Old French coste has become côte in modern French.