seapiece

See also: sea piece

English

Etymology

sea +‎ piece

Noun

seapiece (plural seapieces)

  1. A picture representing a scene at sea; a marine picture.
    • February 4 1709, Richard Steele or Joseph Addison, The Tatler No. 129
      a landskip, or rather sea-piece, wherein the potentates of the Alliance are figured as their interests correspond with, or affect each other, under the appearance of commanders of ships.

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “seapiece”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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