seagirt
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of seagirt
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And of all the neutrals save the strong and seagirt U. S., The Netherlands, with the world's third most valuable colonial empire, has the most to lose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Like figures on a Grecian urn, some passionate Aegean islanders fight, love, hate and die against a mythic, seagirt sunscape.
From Time Magazine Archive
The highlights of Richard Hakluyt's amazing compendium of travel diaries, letters and essays, all of which eloquently chronicle Elizabethan England's rise from seagirt obscurity to world power.
From Time Magazine Archive
Above this symbol of Capital, in the tower, sits the old five-and-tenner Frank Winfield Woolworth himself, observing the seagirt isle with the proprietary air of King Kong.
From Time Magazine Archive
England had been a seagirt nation from the beginning of time.
From The Canadian Commonwealth by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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