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green sea

noun

, Nautical.
  1. a solid mass of water breaking over the bow or bulwark of a ship.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of green sea1

An Americanism dating back to 1825–35

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Example Sentences

Her dress was of pale green sea moss, and she wore ornaments of delicate pink coral in her sunny curls.

She could see the meadow now, a smooth green sea ruffled by nothing heavier than the light feet of the summer breeze.

The steely lake, and the rough-ridged, black-green sea of the fir-tops began to unroll below him.

The frightful wall of grey-green sea rising up, curling and roaring.

But now it was near the top of the tide, and there was scarce two feet betwixt the grass and the dark-green sea.

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