seacave

plural seacaves · alternative sea-cave

1. A cave that is in or under the sea.

   He stepped into a room green as a seacave.

   1934, C. L. Moore, “Black Thirst”, in Martin H. Greenberg, editor, A Taste for Blood: Fifteen Great Vampire Novellas, New York: Barnes & Noble, published 1992, page 179

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

   1879, Henry James, chapter 21, in Confidence

   Her memory moved over the ocean-bed of event like a great octopus, blindly but completely feeling its way into every seacave, rill, estuary […]

   1929, Thomas Wolfe, chapter 7, in Look Homeward, Angel, New York: Scribner, page 64

   […] 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.

   1978, Andrew Holleran, chapter 5, in Dancer from the Dance, New York: New American Library, page 140