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^[1]:

     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^[2], 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, editor, A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas‎^[3], New York: Barnes & Noble, published 1992, page 179:

     He stepped into a room green as a seacave.

   • 1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance‎^[4], 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.