spume
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- noun
- /spjuːm/
- Literature
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espuma
- As the waterbus pulled away again, raising salty spumes in its wake, she blew a kiss toward the sun worshipper and his comrades.
- spume of the sea
- white spume
Examples
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Their breath froze in the air as it left their mouths, spouting forth in spumes of vapor that settled upon the hair of their bodies and formed into crystals of frost.
Academic text (2009) -
The waves crashed against the rocks, sending up clouds of spume that sparkled in the sunlight.
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Sea spume swirled around their legs, frothing and falling back.
Fiction book (1999) -
Unshaven and desperate heads turned, gleaning the new land through the spume of the sea.
Fiction book (1992) -
The wind grew suddenly stronger as a tall wave came in, hitting the rock, a curve of spume rising in the air and spattering down on the seals.
Fiction book (2001) -
Rising with the spume from the sea was a long-sleeping specter, a pale beauty with carrot-colored braids.
Fiction book (1998) -
Caddy swam closer and blew a spume of water from her blowhole; Tegan smiled in delight.
Fiction book (1998) -
The wind gusted onshore, whipping the waves, snatching wisps of spume from the gray curl of the breakers.
Fiction book (1994) -
As the boat sailed through the rough waters, spume sprayed over the deck, making everyone wet.
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The beach was dotted with spume along the shore, a testament to the recent stormy weather.
Synonyms
A light patch of bubbles on the sea made by breaking waves
How Frothy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Spume comes from the Latin word spuma, which means 'foam', and it was used for the white froth on the sea. So when you see white, bubbly foam on the waves, that is 'spume'.