seashell

or sea shell

[ see-shel ]

noun
  1. the shell of any marine mollusk.

Origin of seashell

1
before 900; Old English sǣscill (not recorded in Middle English ) see sea, shell

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How to use seashell in a sentence

  • Now she pointed to them with a little hand as sweetly, faintly pink as the inside of a sea-shell.

    A Butterfly on the Wheel | Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull
  • It's a pink gown, that scarcely defined pink of a sea shell.

    Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
  • Do it, and I'll have you arrested for knocking me over with the sea shell and robbing me.

    From Farm to Fortune | Horatio Alger Jr.
  • My rooms, of course, are small, but exquisite as a sea-shell; I shall live as nearly as possible in true Japanese style.

    A Journal from Japan | Marie Carmichael Stopes
  • "The life-line is here," she said, coolly, and traced it delicately along his palm with a sea-shell tinted finger.

    The Witness | Grace Livingston Hill Lutz

British Dictionary definitions for seashell

seashell

/ (ˈsiːˌʃɛl) /


noun
  1. the empty shell of a marine mollusc

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