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单词 sea-breeze
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sea-breezen.

Etymology: breeze n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-breeze.
1. A breeze blowing from the sea.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the sea
sea-wind1604
sea-turn1627
out-wind1676
tropaean winds1686
sea-breeze1697
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 348 Taking the advantage of the Land breezes by night, and the Sea breezes by day.
1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins Voy. to South-seas 160 A Sea-Breeze came in, and blow'd so hard that we were obliged to weigh.
1769 W. Stork Descr. E. Florida (ed. 3) 25 The sea-breezes keep it in constant agitation.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 359 Before a strong sea-breeze.
1873 B. Harte Episode of Fiddletown 28 The chill sea-breeze made him shiver.
1888 J. R. Lowell Heartsease & Rue 130 Where sea-breeze and sunshine meet.
2. ‘Also, a cool sea-drink’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).

Derivatives

sea-breezed adj. having sea-breezes, or blown on by sea-breezes.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > blown (upon) by wind > by specific wind
sea-breezed1760
west-winded1851
1760 M. Hildesley in W. Hanbury Hist. Rise Charitable Found. Church-Langton (1767) 114 Plants or trees..suitable to this sea~breez'd island [sc. Isle of Man] and its sandy gravelly soil.
sea-breeziness n. figurative the condition of being breezy or having sea-breezes.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > [noun] > liveliness
quicknessc1230
livelihood1566
vivacity1762
undullness1793
sea-breeziness1837
lifesomeness1845
liveliness1855
1837 Fraser's Mag. 16 581 A sea-breeziness that we really dreaded to lose in a work written under the anti-Atlantic inspiration of Germany.
1903 Daily Chron. 25 Sept. 3/4 There is a sea-breeziness about it [sc. the book].
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

> as lemmas

sea-breeze
b. sea-breeze: a parasite infesting some fish (cf. Greek οἶστρος). Obsolete. Also figurative.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Tahon, a Brizze, Brimsee, Gadbee, Dunflie, Oxeflie. Tahon Marin, the sea Brizze; a kind of worm found about some Fishes.
extracted from breezen.1
sea-breeze
b. Extended to include the counter-current of air that blows from the land by night; hence sea-breeze and land-breeze.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > wind blowing from the land > at night
breeze1697
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 400 From Land a gentle Breeze arose by Night.
1706 in Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.)
1731 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) II Breez, a fresh gale of wind blowing from the sea or land alternately for some certain hours of the day or night only sensible near the coast.
1782 W. Cowper Loss Royal George 9 A land-breeze shook the shrouds.
1832 T. B. Macaulay Armada 31 The freshening breeze of eve unfurled that banner's massy fold.
extracted from breezen.2
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