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seabeach

American  
[see-beech] / ˈsiˌbitʃ /

noun

  1. a beach lying along a sea or ocean.


Etymology

Origin of seabeach

First recorded in 1765–75; sea + beach

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At day break, on the bleak seabeach,       A fisherman stood aghast,     To see the form of a maiden fair       Lashed close to a drifting mast.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey

Up! for the morning shines with welcome ray, And to the sunny seabeach let us stray.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by George Gilfillan

Guardian of the seabeach, to thee I send these cakes, and the gifts of a scanty sacrifice; for to-morrow I shall cross the broad wave of the Ionian sea, hastening to our Eidothea's arms.

From Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology by J. W. (John William) Mackail

The halls and rooms of the hotel were built before those days when those who resort to the seabeach were expected to be accommodated within the area of their Saratoga trunks.

From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various

Like thee, congenial bird: my steps explore The bleak lone seabeach, or the rocky dale, And shun the orange bower, the myrtle vale, Whose gay luxuriance suits my soul no more.

From Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre by Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

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