seabeach

American  

[see-beech] / ˈsiˌbitʃ /

noun

1. a beach lying along a sea or ocean.

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Etymology

Origin of seabeach

First recorded in 1765–75; sea + beach

Example Sentences

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 Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de

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 Gilfillan, George

"Sandy islands rose in front of us like a seabeach, and on the right towered a long row of cliffs white and glistening, like the cliffs of Dover."

From A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by Synge, M. B. (Margaret Bertha)

They had evidently been formed in past ages, by the action of some continental stream or seabeach, before the great island of Borneo had risen from the ocean.

From The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1 by Wallace, Alfred Russel

At less than a gunshot from where I stood was as plainly defined a seabeach as one could wish to see.

From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 by Bierce, Ambrose