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sea-side, seaside|ˌsiːˈsaɪd, ˈsiːˌsaɪd|
1. a. The margin or brink of the sea: chiefly with prepositions, as by or at the sea-side, also † on or † upon, and to the sea-side. Now rare or Obs.
c1205Lay. 25661 Bi þere sæ side þet londe he weste wide. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (Andrew) 25 Þane þe angel can hym say, þat he to þe sey-syd suld fare. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) v. 15 At Tyre euen apon þe see syde men may fynd many rubies. 1512Act 4 Hen. VIII, c. 1 §2 All the inhabitantes..to bee at the See side with such instrumentes as they have. 1533Cromwell Let. 6 Dec. in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 368 Your said ferme lieth nygh the see syde. 1617Moryson Itin. i. 148 Towards the West it lies open to the most pleasant Valy of Arno, which Valy continueth as far as Pisa and to the sea-side. 1619in Foster Eng. Factories India (1906) 71 Promising the 12th following to meete and confer with Captain Bonner upon the shoare neere the sea syde. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 55 Among the rocks by the sea-side you find what is commonly called the sea-egg. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. l, Jeanie..had walked down to the sea-side.
†b. pl. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. i. (Skeat) l. 45 On the see⁓sydes, in the more Britayne,..the best [sc. pearls] ben engendred. 1600Surflet Country Farm ii. xlix. 315 Rosemarie..groweth in any aire, but best by the sea sides.
†c. Formerly sometimes the sea's side. Obs.
c1400Cursor M. 21049 (Edinb.) Of grauel bi þe seis side. 1530Tindale Deut. i. 7 Vnto the sees syde in the londe of Canaan. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 99 Those that dwel by the seas syde.
2. Now chiefly: The sea-coast as resorted to for health or pleasure.
1782W. Cowper Let. Nov. (1904) II. 20 Mr. Bull..is gone to the seaside with Mrs. Wilberforce, and will be absent six weeks. 1797Abernethy Surg. & Physiol. Ess. iii. 112 As he had an opportunity of going to the sea-side, I encouraged him to do so. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. v, Thence to proceed to such town at the sea-side as she might suggest or the physicians recommend. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. (1877) I. i. 53 A family in the middle class of life going to the seaside. 1893J. A. Hodges Elem. Photogr. (1907) 109 Exposed for sale in the shops at the sea-side.
3. The side towards or facing the sea.
1867J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic xii. 149 After returning from a delightful excursion on the sea side of the town. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey I. 317 On the sea-side of it rose the Mount Rumia.
4. attrib. or quasi-adj. Belonging to, situated or taking place at the sea-side. Freq. in seaside café, sea-side holiday, sea-side resort, sea-side villa.
1781W. Cowper Let. 26 Sept. (1904) I. 358 The modern passion for seaside entertainments. 1784― Task vi. 245 As countless as the sea-side sands. 1810Crabbe Borough ix. 2 We amuse Ourselves..with sea-side walks and views. 1861Mrs. Carlyle Lett. III. 86 Ramsgate, one of the most accessible sea-side places. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 373 The Pope, we know, is Neapolitan And relishes a sea-side simile. 1873Young Englishwoman June 281/1 The collars can be procured..of chemists at seaside resorts. 1909Sat. Even. Post 5 June 17/2 As soon as the theaters or ‘hall-shows’, as the circus men call them, close, the summer-garden or seaside parks open. 1939F. Thompson Lark Rise ii. 36 Children..went to parties and for sea-side holidays. 1967N. Freeling Strike out where not Applicable 39 A messy, ugly building..that..had climbed beyond modest seaside-café beginnings. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline xix. 228 Looking like a seaside landlady who has just caught her daughter in bed with the star lodger. 1974Listener 3 Jan. 27/1 The opera..went on, with success, at the seaside resort. 1976P. R. White Planning for Public Transport vii. 141 The traditional seaside excursion demand has fallen, most weekend leisure trips now being made by car. 1981‘W. Haggard’ Money Men xi. 117 Dame Molly has rented a seaside villa.
b. In names of plants, etc. (often rendering L. maritimus), as sea-side alder, sea-side balsam, sea-side convolvulus, sea-side fiorin, sea-side oat, etc.; † sea-side beech, a species of Cinchona; seaside finch U.S., a small sparrow, Ammospiza maritima, found on the Atlantic coast of North America; seaside grape = sea-grape 4; seaside laurel (see the n.); seaside sparrow = seaside finch above.
1884Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 162 Alnus maritima. *Seaside Alder.
1756P. Browne Jamaica (1789) 347 Croton 2... The small *Sea-side Balsam... Croton 4... The Sea-side Balsam. 1852G. W. Johnson Cottage Gard. Dict., Sea-side Balsam, Croton eleut[h]eria.
1777W. Wright in Phil. Trans. LXVII. 504 The *Sea-side Beech..rises only to twenty feet.
1855Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. IV. 21 Calystegia Soldanella (*Sea-side Convolvulus).
1811A. Wilson Amer. Ornithol. IV. 68 *Sea-side Finch..derives its whole subsistence from the sea. 1872E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds 137 Sea-side Finch. Olive-gray, obscurely streaked on the back and crown.
1852J. Wiggins Embanking 104 The agrostis maritima or *sea-side fiorin.
1696Plukenet Almagestum Wks. 1769 II. 394 *Sea-side Grape. 1756,1792Sea-side grape [see grape n.1 3 b]. 1837J. L. Williams Territory of Florida 37 The seaside grape..and custard apples are frequently found in the hummocks. 1929R. Hughes High Wind in Jamaica i. 16 The lane, or drive, was gorgeous: for the first few hundred yards it was entirely hedged with ‘seaside grapes’. 1978T. J. Wright in V. H. Heywood Flowering Plants of World 78/2 The purple berries of the West Indian seaside grape..are eaten.
1822Loudon Encycl. Gard. (1824) Index, Uniola, *sea-side oat..H[ardy] peren[nial] N. Amer. of easy culture.
1886Code Nomencl. & Check-list N. Amer. Birds (Amer. Ornithologists' Union) 269 *Seaside Sparrow..Salt marshes of the Atlantic coast. 1937T. G. Pearson in Grosvenor & Wetmore Bk. Birds II. 272/2 The northern seaside sparrow inhabits..the vicinity of the ocean beaches. 1978C. Harrison Field Guide Nests, Eggs & Nestlings N. Amer. Birds 394 Seaside Sparrow..breeds on salt marshes.
c. Special Combs., as seaside (picture-)postcard, a postcard of a type commonly sold at the sea-side, spec. one depicting a caricature of lewd or vulgar humour; seaside rock (candy), rock-candy in the form of a cylindrical stick, usu. with a cross-section displaying the name of a resort in coloured lettering, commonly sold at the seaside.
1955M. Allingham Beckoning Lady ii. 22 They looked like a seaside picture-postcard..wedged in the tub cart together, with the donkey in front. 1957R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. ii. 31 The fifty-year-old formality of seaside postcards: most of the year ‘decent’ working-class people would hardly approve of them, but on holiday they are likely to ‘let up a bit’ and send a few to friends—cards showing fat mothers-in-law and fat policemen, weedy little men with huge-bottomed wives, ubiquitous bottles of beer and chamber-pots. 1979J. Wainwright Duty Elsewhere xv. 45 The exaggerated bawdiness of seaside postcards.
1963Listener 3 Jan. 40/2 Seaside rock and candy-floss. 1968W. Garner Deep, Deep Freeze vii. 96 Carnality ran through her like the letters through seaside rock candy. 1978R. Hill Pinch of Snuff xxv. 262 He left them in a three-cornered trap..with a four-letter word burned on the lawn. Perhaps like sea-side rock it went all the way through. |