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seashell
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Seashell is an off-white color that resembles some of the very pale pinkish tones that are common in many seashells . The first recorded use of seashell as a color name in English was in 1926. In 1987, "seashell" was included as one of the X11 colors .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also sea-shell , Old English sæscel ; see sea and shell (n.).
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the shell of a marine organism
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ seashells on the beach EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Also herbarium and a collection of seashells. ▪ Down below were the pink seashell murals lit by fluorescent lights, and distant black and white movies on the screen. ▪ It sounds ...
Usage examples of seashell.
Like all inanimate objects everywhere, the three displaced articles from the Airstream turkey knew instinctively what the seashell was talking about.
Other unmistakable paraphernalia sat on tables and shelves: a large white and pink seashell, a slender glass vase holding one long stemmed red rose, an intricately carved wooden box, and a collection of small jadestone figurines.
The rain had stopped, and as Nicholas dismounted his Kawasaki, sunlight, pink as the inside of a seashell, streamed through a break in the clouds.
He and the great seashell came to look more and more like each other by the day.
The crab poked its head out of its seashell, looked at Jonathan, then pinched him on the finger.
The four bodies were adorned in bone fetishes, claws, the canines of beasts, and polished seashells.
The room was at least two hundred meters long, half that high, and filled with bars of gold, heaps of coins, chests of precious stones, small mountains of polished bronze artifacts, marble statues of gods and men, great seashells spilling pearls onto the polished floor, dismantled gold chariots, glass columns filled with lapis lazuli, and a hundred other treasures, all gleaming from the reflected light from flames flickering in a score of gold fire tripods.
On the platform was a couchlike bed of carved wood inlaid with seashells.
In some of the baskets and hanging from pegs were carved ivory armbands and bracelets, and necklaces of animal teeth, freshwater mollusc shells, seashells, cylindrical lime tubes, natural and colored ivory beads and pendants, and prominent among them, amber.
This was a parlor: overstuffed plush chairs, faded rug with pink roses, a million little tables densely covered with picture frames and wooden boxes and seashells and candleholders and dried flowers in small vases the dim colors of Victorian gentility.
Her eyes moved rapidly behind lids as delicately colored as seashells.
From hot-air balloons above the square, orchestras of children blowing on giant seashells played enthusiastic, strident antiphonies.
Blue Hawaiian shirt, white capris, white sandals, cheap tourist seashell jewelry.
And then the nobles return to their own levels, the upper levels, and pay homage to the Snow Queen, who sees everything and knows everything, who controls the currents of influence and power that move like water through the seashell convolutions of the city.
He gave me a seashell, pale, white, gleaming with opalescence like a daintier, pinker version of abalone shell.