seashell

or sea shell

[ see-shel ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

seashell

/ ˈsiːˌʃɛl /

before 900; Old English sǣscill (not recorded in Middle English ) sea, shell

Panic ensues, but then you dig your hand into your pocket, and it jingles reassuringly — not with coins, but seashells!

From Ozy

It would be the greatest honor, even today, to be buried among seashells.

Barnett had “set out to listen to seashells as chroniclers of nature’s truth.”

Items placed in the grave included a seashell, a large, flat rock and several ropes, one with elaborate knots and a tassel at one end.

Pigment-stained seashells in the grave may have held solutions into which tattooers dipped those tools.

He was just opening it when the seashell was sent whizzing forward.

The crowd finds these systems ready-made and merely backs into them and hides itself like a hermit crab in a deserted seashell.

How strange was the monotonous sound of the waves, mournful and distant, like the sound in a seashell!

The operculum,21 of a seashell, or very occasionally some bright object, may set off the knob.

On each side of the base is a shallow silver dish shaped like a seashell and supported by dolphins.

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