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bêche-de-mer
[ besh-duh-mair, beysh- ]
noun
- a trepang.
- Often Bêche-de-Mer. Neo-Melanesian.
bêche-de-mer
/ ˌbɛʃdəˈmɛə /
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Example Sentences
Before they left, they presented me with a quantity of bêche-de-mer, or sea-slugs, which make most excellent soup.
Certainly he had found them without the almost universal bêche-de-mer English of the west South Pacific.
This fact seems to be against the opinion, that the nests are composed of the spawn of fish, or of bêche-de-mer.
I fancy some of the Tahiti schooners trade here for pearl, shells, and bêche-de-mer.
One of his tambos (tambo being bêche-de-mer and Melanesian for “taboo”) was that water unavoidable must never touch his skin.
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