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, Confidence, Chapter 21,^[1]

     He took long walks, rambled on the beach, along the base of the cliffs and among the brown sea-caves […]

   • 1929, Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, Chapter 7, p. 64,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     He stepped into a room green as a seacave.

   • 1978, Andrew Holleran, Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, Chapter 5, p. 140,^[4]

     […] 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.