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South Seas
     
South Seas old use or literary

the South Seas

the southern Pacific Ocean, especially when people think of it as a place of white sand beaches, palm trees, and beautiful girls who wear grass skirts
—South Sea adjective [only before noun]
• a beautiful South Sea island
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