Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The foam that crowns or edges a breaker, or that lies on a pool.
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Examples
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Where the foam-wreath glows with its phosphor light,
Views a-foot Bayard Taylor 1851
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As I am a living man, he went from off the brow of the cliff, just like a foam-wreath. "
The Buccaneer A Tale S. C. Hall 1840
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