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Mar. 21, 2015
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mal de mer Audio Pronunciation
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\mal duh MER\
noun
1. French. seasickness.
Quotes
When the mal de mer seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no gray cells…
-- Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds, 1935
Origin
Mal de mer came to English in the 1700s from French.
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