sea-salted

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Adjective[edit]

sea-salted (not comparable)

  1. (cooking) salted with sea salt
    • 2016, James Sherwood, James Sherwood's Discriminating Guide to London, Thames & Hudson, →ISBN:
      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.
    • 2018, Chloe Coscarelli, Chloe Flavor: Saucy, Spicy, Crunchy, Vegan, Clarkson Potter, →ISBN, page 269:
      217 sea salted chocolate chunk cookies.
  2. Of sea air or seawater, full of sea salt.
    • 2010, Priscilla Leder, Seeds of Change: Critical Essays on Barbara Kingsolver, Univ. of Tennessee Press, →ISBN, page 222:
      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.
    • 2017, Kerrigan Byrne, The Scot Beds His Wife, St. Martin's Paperbacks, →ISBN:
      ... evacuated lungs with thick, seasalted air as he sucked in an uncharacteristic gasp.
  3. seasoned to or hardened by the sea.
    • 1910, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer:
      It came out that this stern, grim, windtanned, rough, seasalted, taciturn sailor of sixtyfive was not only an artist, but a lover as well.