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单词 sea-town
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sea-townn.

Forms: see sea n. and town n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: sea n., town n.
Etymology: < sea n. + town n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsea-town.
Now rare.
(Common in 17th cent.) A town situated on or near the sea, a sea-port town.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > town by situation
thoroughfare1424
thoroughfare town1515
outtown?1517
sea-town1578
frontier1604
by-town1683
out-borough1832
out-township1837
1578 J. Stockwood Serm. Barthelmew Day 36 Cesarea was a Sea~town, not far from the Mount Carmel.
1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 61 A maritime Prouince, full of Sea-townes, and Hauens.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France in Wks. (1808) VIII. 373 These two islands, with their extensive, and every where vulnerable coast, should be considered as a garrisoned sea-town.
1905 Westm. Gaz. 30 Jan. 2/3 The darkening roofs of the sea-town.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online June 2020).
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