Definitions

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  • noun A foam created by the agitation of seawater.

Etymologies

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sea +‎ foam

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Examples

  • Her dress is a color called seafoam, a color perfectly balanced between the palest blue and the palest green.

    Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner 2001

  • He pointed at a late-model sedan with a paint job the manufacturer called "seafoam" or "teal."

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • They proved to be the so-called "seafoam" biscuit from New York.

    Our Hundred Days in Europe Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • They proved to be the so-called "seafoam" biscuit from New York.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851

  • The girl at the Bridal Barn said the color’s called seafoam, but that’s really more of a green-sounding thing, I think.

    Good in Bed Jennifer Weiner 2001

  • "seafoam" cam Aphrodite, Zeus 'impregnation of women in the form of not just a swan but a goat and a "shower of gold", some blasphemous king being cursed so that his daughter fell in love with a bull and constructed a special wooden apparatus in order to have intercourse with the bull and thus birth the cursed beast called the minotaur who eventually got tossed into a labyrinth.

    Progressive U - The new media voice for students 2009

  • Country Barbie Alaina did her best work in a hideous seafoam nightmare on Lee Ann Womack's "I Hope You Dance."

    Watercooler: The Idol Dilemma 2011

  • We write up an exhaustive list, type them out on fancy paper with our beloved seafoam green Coronado, tape them up on our wall, and forget about them immediately.

    Just Wait Until You See Our Self-Help Book 2009

  • We write up an exhaustive list, type them out on fancy paper with our beloved seafoam green Coronado, tape them up on our wall, and forget about them immediately.

    Archive 2009-12-01 2009

  • Even before I turned thirteen, I fantasized about my twenties, imagining myself breaking free from the confines of my seafoam green bedroom, my future accomplishments sure indicators that the hushed conversations where I was referred to as selfish, lazy, and ungrateful for forgetting to put away the dishes were completely unfounded.

    Velcro Shoes, a Cardboard Computer, and Other Signs of Brilliance Casey McGrath 2011

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  • There's something I've never understood about seafoam (or sea foam) as a color word. All the seafoam I've ever seen is white. I've never seen any green seafoam.

    Why? Why?

    October 17, 2007

  • Clearly, you're not using your seafoam-colored glasses.

    October 17, 2007

  • An old-fashioned candy that is light and airy, which is the reason it is called seafoam.

    January 24, 2008