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ˈsea-breeze
[breeze n.2]
1. A breeze blowing from the sea.
1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 348 Taking the advantage of the Land breezes by nyht, and the Sea breezes by day. 1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 160 A Sea-Breeze came in, and blow'd so hard that we were obliged to weigh. 1769W. Stork Descr. East-Florida (ed. 3) 25 The sea-breezes keep it in constant agitation. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan I. 359 Before a strong sea-breeze. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown 28 The chill sea-breeze made him shiver. 1888Lowell Heartsease & Rue 130 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet.
2. ‘Also, a cool sea-drink’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
Hence sea-breezed a., having sea-breezes, or blown on by sea-breezes; sea-breeziness, the condition of being breezy or having sea-breezes. fig.
1760Bp. Hildesley in W. Hanbury Charit. Found. Ch.-Langton (1767) 114 Plants or trees..suitable to this sea⁓breez'd island [Man] and its sandy gravelly soil. 1837[see breeziness]. 1903Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/4 There is a sea-breeziness about it [the book]. |