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seaboard

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sea⋅board

[see-bawrd, -bohrd]
–noun
1. the line where land and sea meet.
2. a region bordering a seacoast: the Eastern seaboard.
–adjective
3. bordering on or adjoining the sea.

Origin:
1350–1400 for earlier sense “porthole cover”; 1480–90 in phrases at, on, to seaboard on the seaward side; 1815–25 for def. 1; ME seebord. See sea, starboard
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sea·board   (sē'bôrd', -bōrd')   
n.  
  1. A seacoast.

  2. Land near the sea.

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