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noun

Breeze n.

A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind. "Into a gradual calm the breezes sink."

An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze. (Colloq.)

Land breeze, a wind blowing from the land, generally at night.

Sea breeze, a breeze or wind blowing, generally in the daytime, from the sea.

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Etymology of 'Sea breeze'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Sea breeze" Quotes from Famous Books

... "Tobacco smoke diluted with sea breeze is delicious," she said, as the wind whirled the aromatic smoke of his cigarette up into her face. "Don't move, Mr. Siward; I like it; there is to me always a faint odour of sweet-brier in the melange. Did ...

— The Fighting Chance • Robert W. Chambers

... had been a great week, with Dennis like a sea breeze filling the house with his wonderful spirits. There were people to dinner almost every evening, among them Uncle Eric, who was a staff captain at the ...

— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry

... whole fleet was bound up the coast, but before many of the schooners had drifted far enough out to catch the breeze it had failed, and only after an hour or more of annoying experience with puffs from every quarter, did the strong sea breeze set in. Sheets were trimmed flat aft, and all settled down to beating up the coast. The Julia soon left the mass of the fleet and before reaching Battle Harbor, where a long desired mail was awaiting, had ...

— Bowdoin Boys in Labrador • Jonathan Prince (Jr.) Cilley

... are done by our countrymen, than when Greeks or Moors do them, because one does not expect anything better from their hands. But I see, sir, you are casting an eye at one of those strange-looking native crafts standing in for the land with the sea breeze." ...

— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... these exotically plumed bipeds, whose fine feathers were already bedrabbled by sand and growing limp in the sea breeze, was somewhat dissonant with the rudeness of sea and sky and shore. A few gulls screamed at them; a loon, startled from the lagoon, arose shrieking and protesting, with painfully extended legs, in obvious burlesque ...

— Drift from Two Shores • Bret Harte