swan's bath
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From swan and bath. Periphrase used in Norse saga.
Noun
[edit]- (poetic) The sea, or any large body of open water.
- 1866, Charles Kingsley, Hereward the Wake, London: Nelson, page 42:
- So hey for the merry greenwood, and the long ships, and the swan’s bath, and all the rest of it.
- 1891, H. Rider Haggard, Eric Brighteyes, London: Longmans, Green & Company, page 42:
- Swift and sure across the Swan’s Bath / Sped Sea-stag on Raven’s track