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beches de mer

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bêche-de-mer

  [besh-duh-mair, beysh-]
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–noun, plural bêch⋅es-de-mer, (especially collectively) bêche-de-mer for 1.
1. a trepang.
2. Often, Bêche-de-Mer. Neo-Melanesian.
Origin:
1805–15; erroneously for F biche de mer < Pg bicho do mar lit., animal of the sea; cf. Beach-la-Mar
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Ne⋅o-Mel⋅a⋅ne⋅sian

  [nee-oh-mel-uh-nee-zhuhn, -shuhn]
–noun
a pidgin language based on English and spoken in Melanesia, New Guinea, and NE Australia.
Also called Beach-la-mar, bêche-de-mer.

Origin:
1960–65
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