mal de mer
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Dr. Desnoes has been having the company ship-doctors gather data on the malady, known also as mal de mer and nausea marma, to which most people, even sailors, are subject.
From Time Magazine Archive
The filming, some of which took place off the coast of Barcelona, caused some seasickness problems among the moviemakers, but Dunaway seemed to have had more worries about costuming than mal de mer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Talbot exclaims at one point, but the energy he might have devoted to metaphysical speculations on this insight pour instead into keeping himself upright on the heaving decks and avoiding mal de mer.
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His fear of mal de mer prevented him from carrying out frequent plans for coming to the U. S. Died.
From Time Magazine Archive
He only wishes to emphasise his own immunity from mal de mer, and blow the smoke of his disgusting pipe into your face.
From Ship-Bored by Street, Julian
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