sea salt

noun

1. table salt produced through the evaporation of seawater.

sea salt

noun

1. salt obtained by evaporation of sea water

sea salt

1. Salt that is produced by the evaporation of sea water and that contains sodium chloride and trace elements such as sulfur, magnesium, zinc, potassium, calcium, and iron.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sea salt¹

First recorded in 1595–1605

Example Sentences

Formulated for sensitive skin, this eco-friendly pick is made with dead sea salt and earth wax and comes in plant-based packaging.

From Popular-Science

Before sealing each to-go box, he spun the requisite twirl of olive oil and finished each with a sprinkling of sea salt, which he buys from a salt miner friend in West Virginia.

From Eater

Immediately sprinkle with fine sea salt if you’ll be eating right away, and serve with the remaining sauce.

From Eater

What matters now — what I want my children who are anxious about their future — to remember is the delight they feel when they taste a sea salt caramel ice cream, not their mother shouting for them to come and have vegetable soup.

From Ozy

A plastic cup of smoked sea salt lets recipients season the aged acquerello rice to their taste.

From Washington Post

Some dried cranberries for tartness and a sprinkle of sea salt make these my all-time favorite cookies.

From The Daily Beast

Douse the whole thing with some olive oil and add Himalayan pink sea salt to taste.

From The Daily Beast

I was in a daze, still wearing clothes stiffened with evaporated sea salt.

From The Daily Beast

At my restaurant, I even serve raw octopus sashimi with just sea salt.

From The Daily Beast

Or you can buy chocolate sea salt and enhance your cocktails, salads, and desserts at home.

From The Daily Beast

That of nitre is a pointed oblong; that of sea-salt an exact cube; that of sugar a perfect globe.

From Project Gutenberg

From chloride of sodium, which is nothing else than sea salt, Cyrus Harding easily extracted the soda and chlorine.

From Project Gutenberg

Alum, tartar, and solution of tin, render its colour more vivid; sea salt and sulphate of iron deepen its hue.

From Project Gutenberg

On coming out of the bran, they are ready for the white stuff; which is a bath composed of alum and sea-salt.

From Project Gutenberg

This sulphate ought to be white and uniform, exhibiting in its fracture no undecomposed sea-salt.

From Project Gutenberg