Literary uses of “seafoam” as a color often evoke a sense of delicate, ethereal beauty. In one instance, it appears as “a pale seafoam green that is delightful to the eye,” immediately establishing a serene, natural hue that captivates the reader’s attention [1]. Other works use the term poetically, as in the imagery of “folds of the seafoam to cover the feet,” which suggests both texture and a gentle, almost otherworldly quality [2, 3]. In another piece, the color adorns a figure whose garment is described as being “clothed in the seafoam and his own nobility,” lending a regal purity to the portrayal [4]. Additionally, the simile comparing froth to seafoam in a vivid description further underscores its association with lightness and transient beauty [5].
- There is a little room, a symphony in green and gold, created by -488- one girl's taste, a pale seafoam green that is delightful to the eye.
— from Social Life; or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society by Maud C. Cooke
- Here are the hands that are lucid, sweet, Wound at the wrist with an amber beading, Folds of the seafoam to cover the feet, Mortals misleading.
— from Embers, Complete by Gilbert Parker
- Here are the hands that are lucid, sweet, Wound at the wrist with an amber beading, Folds of the seafoam to cover the feet, Mortals misleading.
— from Embers, Volume 2. by Gilbert Parker
- Our hero is clothed in the seafoam and his own nobility, nothing else."
— from He Comes Up Smiling by Charles Sherman
- Froth flecked back from the nervous, quivering lips, and spattered against his black satin-skinned chest, where it hung like seafoam on holding sand.
— from Thoroughbreds by William Alexander Fraser