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green sea
noun
, Nautical.
- 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.
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She could see the meadow now, a smooth green sea ruffled by nothing heavier than the light feet of the summer breeze.
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The steely lake, and the rough-ridged, black-green sea of the fir-tops began to unroll below him.
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The frightful wall of grey-green sea rising up, curling and roaring.
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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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