seapiece

[ see-pees ]

noun

1. seascape ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of seapiece¹

First recorded in 1650–60; sea + piece

Example Sentences

And so, good-bye, and all good attend you; and in all the Berghem Seapiece of your life may there not be a single wave the size of a tear.

From Project Gutenberg

Rembrandt's Storm on the Sea of Galilee is his only seapiece, and the Vermeer Concert is, well, a Vermeer: a sublime patch of silence and visual harmony washed in pearly light, one of only 32 known works by the master.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Vermeer could be worth $70 million, the Rembrandt seapiece $15 million and the rest a lot less: the five Degas being trivial and the Manet not much better.

From Time Magazine Archive

And he turned back to the David Cox—a seapiece, of good tone but without movement enough.

From Project Gutenberg