sea-viewn.
1. A picture representing a scene at sea, a ‘seascape’.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > a painting of the sea or water
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water1706
water piece1761
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seascape1799
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waterscape1826
riverscape1884
1781 J. Reynolds Journey Flanders & Holland in Wks. (1797) II. 80 The picture..appears to be a sea-view.
1817 Lady Morgan France (1818) II. v. 37 Altering the position of the pictures..and adding to their number the sea-views of Vernet.
2. A view or prospect of the sea, or at sea.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [noun] > view or scenery > of water
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seascape1806
waterscape1826
riverscape1854
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1790 J. Woodforde Diary 10 May (1927) III. 188 My Brother and Wife..very highly pleased with Yarmouth and the Sea View.
1844 A. W. Kinglake Eothen iv. 63 The reality of that very sea-view, which had bounded the sight of the Greeks.
1864 A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock (1880) 289 A fine sea-view from the hills of Dundonald.
1872 C. S. Calverley Fly Leaves 32 Those ‘Lodgings with an ample sea-view’, Which were..‘To Let’.
1897 ‘A. Hope’ Phroso (1905) ii. 25 About half-way up,..and commanding a splendid sea-view, stood an old grey battlemented house.
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