seacave
nounEtymology From sea + cave.
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A cave that is in or under the sea.
- He took long walks, rambled on the beach, along the base of the cliffs and among the brown sea-caves […]1879, Henry James, chapter 21, in Confidence:
- Her memory moved over the ocean-bed of event like a great octopus, blindly but completely feeling its way into every seacave, rill, estuary […]1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 7, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, page 64:
2 more examples
- He stepped into a room green as a seacave.1934, C. L. Moore, “Black Thirst”, in Martin H. Greenberg, editor, A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas, New York: Barnes & Noble, published 1992, page 179:
- […] they wandered into the park where we sat on a bench in the chilly darkness watching the silhouettes float around like sharks in that dark seacave of erotic love.1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, page 140: