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

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

At day break, on the bleak seabeach,       A fisherman stood aghast,     To see the form of a maiden fair       Lashed close to a drifting mast.

From McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

"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)

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

Up! for the morning shines with welcome ray, And to the sunny seabeach let us stray.

From The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1 With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan by Gilfillan, George