seacave

English

Alternative forms
  • sea-cave

Etymology

sea +‎ cave

Noun

seacave (plural seacaves)

  1. A cave that is in or under the sea.
    • 1879, Henry James, chapter 21, in Confidence‎:
      He took long walks, rambled on the beach, along the base of the cliffs and among the brown sea-caves […]
    • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 7, in Look Homeward, Angel‎, New York: Scribner, page 64:
      Her memory moved over the ocean-bed of event like a great octopus, blindly but completely feeling its way into every seacave, rill, estuary […]
    • 1934, C. L. Moore, “Black Thirst” in Martin H. Greenberg (ed.), A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas, New York: Barnes & Noble, 1992, p. 179,
      He stepped into a room green as a seacave.
    • 1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance‎, New York: New American Library, page 140:
      […] 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.
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