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

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

"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)

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

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

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