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sea air
The air above or in the neighbourhood of the sea; air containing saline or gaseous matter derived from sea-water.
1685Boyle Enq. Notion Nat. vii. 318 Most persons, the first time they go to sea,..are, by the unwonted agitations,..(assisted perhaps by the sea-air..) cast into that disease..called the sea-sickness. 1707Sloane Jamaica I. 2 Joseph Acosta ascribes it [this sickness] to the Sea-Air. 1795Coleridge Refl. Place Retirem. 67 And myrtles fearless of the mild sea-air. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. v, The advice of her physicians to try the effect of sea-air and sea-bathing. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. iii, The English lady..has gone to live at Carnarvon to get the sea air. |