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sea-coast
1. The land adjacent to the sea; = coast n. 4.
13..Coer de L. 4782 Kyng Richard and Phelyp, with her hoost; Wente foorth be the see-coost. a1451Fortescue Wks. (1869) 551 The coost of France is no longer by the narow see coost than from Calyce in Pycardy unto Seynt Malous in Bretany. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. x. 6 Those white rocks..Which all along the Southerne sea-coast lay, Threatning vnheedie wrecke. 1614Raleigh Hist. World iii. vii. §5. 83 All the Sea-coast..[was] exposed to the waste of an enemie too farre ouer-matching him. 1790Beatson Nav. & Mil. Mem. II. 164 To defend the sea-coasts of his own dominions. 1831Sir J. Sinclair Corr. II. 336 Prussia..has a considerable range of sea-coast. 1876A. S. Murray Mythol. iii. (1877) 38 The Sirens are strictly personifications, not of the sea, but of the dangers of the sea-coast to sailors.
2. attrib. or adj.
1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 146 The Sea-coast Townes of France. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. (Globe) 103 So that I fancy'd now I had my Country House, and my Sea-Coast-House. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v. Lavatera, L. arborea..being a common plant in sea-coast cottage gardens.
Hence † sea-coaster, a wrecker; † sea-coasting a., situated on the sea-coast.
c1550in Trans. Roy. Hist. Soc. (1902) XVI. 83 [To assist ship-owners against pillage by the] sea-coasters. 1610Healey St. Aug. Citie of God xviii. ii. 657 But their opinion that make Aegialia to be a sea-coasting citty is better. |