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sea-salted

sea-salted adjective: salted with sea salt.

Adjective

sea-salted (not comparable)

  1. salted with sea salt
    • A bottle of Prosecco, a straw and a plate of seasalted radishes to eat smeared with butter, or a slab of toasted sourdough groaning with white crab meat.2016, James Sherwood, James Sherwood's Discriminating Guide to London, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN
    • 217 sea salted chocolate chunk cookies.2018, Chloe Coscarelli, Chloe Flavor: Saucy, Spicy, Crunchy, Vegan, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 269
  2. Of sea air or seawater, full of sea salt.
    • Whether it is a riverbed, a prairie horizon, or a sea salted wind, there are fragments of place the ready listener can rely on to reveal a larger biological habitat.2010, Priscilla Leder, Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 222
    • ... evacuated lungs with thick, seasalted air as he sucked in an uncharacteristic gasp.2017, Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN
  3. seasoned to or hardened by the sea.
    • It came out that this stern, grim, windtanned, rough, seasalted, taciturn sailor of sixtyfive was not only an artist, but a lover as well.1910, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

Questions about sea-salted

What does sea-salted mean?
Sea-salted means salted with sea salt.
What part of speech is sea-salted?
Sea-salted is an adjective.

Words near sea-salted in the dictionary

  1. sea-robbers
  2. sea-rose
  3. sea-roses
  4. sea-ruff
  5. sea-ruffs
  6. sea-salted
  7. sea-salty
  8. sea-scorpion
  9. sea-scorpions
  10. sea-serpent
  11. sea-serpents

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