White Sea

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Etymology

Calque of Russian Белое море (Beloje more)

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the White Sea

  1. A sea to the northwest of Russia.
    • 1885, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Man From Archangel‎:
      We bore her down to the boat and aboard our vessel, and then getting up anchor we sailed away across the White Sea until the spires of Archangel sank down behind the horizon.

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