"sea-salty" meaning in English

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      "form": "more sea-salty",
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          "ref": "1975, Blaga Dimitrova, translated by John Robert Colombo and Nikola Roussanoff, “Grains of Rice (Extracts)”, in Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village: Sixty Poems from Contemporary Bulgaria, Willowdale, Ont.: Hounslow Press, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "My sea-salty tears bring to mind my origins.",
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          "ref": "1996, Charlene Raddon, Forever Mine, New York, N.Y.: Zebra Books, →ISBN, page 343:",
          "text": "Suddenly restless, he walked to the doorway to fill his lungs with clean, sea-salty river air.",
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          "ref": "2002, Brian Howell, The Dance of Geometry, [New Milford, Conn.]: The Toby Press LLC, →ISBN, page 11:",
          "text": "But the moans grew ever louder until they swallowed everyone in the room, and Johannes woke to the taste of his own sea-salty tears.",
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        {
          "ref": "2002, Lovespirals, “Windblown Kiss”, in Windblown Kiss (Projekt; 133):",
          "text": "One can cry only so many / Sea salty tears / Oceans of missed kisses / Over the years",
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          "ref": "2003, Michael Parker, “Off Island”, in Bill Henderson et al., editors, Pushcart Prize XXVII: Best of the Small Presses, Wainscott, N.Y.: Pushcart Press, →ISBN, →ISSN, pages 536–537:",
          "text": "He could close his eyes and see the sisters sitting right up front at his funeral, sea-salty tears raining down on the Sunday dresses they had not worn for years.",
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          "ref": "2008, Heather E. Hutsell, “Awakening Alice”, in Awakening Alice; A Ticket for Patience, 2nd edition, [FattyBabyCat Publishing], →ISBN, chapter 10 (Pass the Scheme), page 65:",
          "text": "And here (and she would tell you—very against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears.",
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          "ref": "2009, Jane Davis, chapter 17, in Half-Truths & White Lies, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 127:",
          "text": "Then I cry the sea-salty tears of someone who is not certain what they have to go back to.",
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          "ref": "2013, John Gorham, Liz Crain, “Squid Ink Pasta”, in Toro Bravo: Stories. Recipes. No Bull. Or, the Making, Breaking, and Riding of a Bull, San Francisco, Calif.: McSweeney’s, →ISBN, page 196, column 1:",
          "text": "Set a large pot of sea-salty water (¼ cup salt, 1 gallon water) to boil for the squid ink pasta.",
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          "ref": "2017, Katayoun Medhat, The Quality of Mercy: A Milagro Mystery, Fredonia, N.Y.: Leapfrog Press, →ISBN, pages 266 (chapter 25) and 278 (chapter 26):",
          "text": "Sound trailed by breath traveling across the continent, desert stone and grass-covered plain and mountain range, canyons and lakes, small hamlets, big cities to the coast and then a thousand leagues under the sea along the cable snaking under a hundred quadrillions of gallons of sea-salty water all the way to other side. […] He rubbed his hands over his face and upper body, looked at his wet sooty streaked palms that smelled of sage-ash and sea-salty tears.",
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        "Containing or tasting of sea salt."
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          "ref": "1975, Blaga Dimitrova, translated by John Robert Colombo and Nikola Roussanoff, “Grains of Rice (Extracts)”, in Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village: Sixty Poems from Contemporary Bulgaria, Willowdale, Ont.: Hounslow Press, →ISBN, page 26:",
          "text": "My sea-salty tears bring to mind my origins.",
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          "text": "One can cry only so many / Sea salty tears / Oceans of missed kisses / Over the years",
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          "text": "He could close his eyes and see the sisters sitting right up front at his funeral, sea-salty tears raining down on the Sunday dresses they had not worn for years.",
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          "text": "And here (and she would tell you—very against her will!) Alice began to cry saddened, sea-salty tears.",
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          "ref": "2009, Jane Davis, chapter 17, in Half-Truths & White Lies, London: Black Swan, Transworld Publishers, →ISBN, page 127:",
          "text": "Then I cry the sea-salty tears of someone who is not certain what they have to go back to.",
          "type": "quote"
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          "text": "Set a large pot of sea-salty water (¼ cup salt, 1 gallon water) to boil for the squid ink pasta.",
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          "text": "Sound trailed by breath traveling across the continent, desert stone and grass-covered plain and mountain range, canyons and lakes, small hamlets, big cities to the coast and then a thousand leagues under the sea along the cable snaking under a hundred quadrillions of gallons of sea-salty water all the way to other side. […] He rubbed his hands over his face and upper body, looked at his wet sooty streaked palms that smelled of sage-ash and sea-salty tears.",
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