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seacave

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Etymology

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From sea +‎ cave.

Noun

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seacave (plural seacaves)

  1. A cave that is in or under the sea.
    • 1879, Henry James, chapter 21, in Confidence[1]:
      He took long walks, rambled on the beach, along the base of the cliffs and among the brown sea-caves []
    • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 7, in Look Homeward, Angel[2], New York: Scribner, page 64:
      Her memory moved over the ocean-bed of event like a great octopus, blindly but completely feeling its way into every seacave, rill, estuary []
    • 1934, C. L. Moore, “Black Thirst”, in Martin H. Greenberg, editor, A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas[3], New York: Barnes & Noble, published 1992, page 179:
      He stepped into a room green as a seacave.
    • 1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance[4], New York: New American Library, page 140:
      [] they wandered into the park where we sat on a bench in the chilly darkness watching the silhouettes float around like sharks in that dark seacave of erotic love.