mal de mer
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Although the company shies from medical claims, French doctors often prescribe Perrier for mal de mer and morning sickness.
From Time Magazine Archive
Other solutions, like cutting from the right side of a frame to the left within what was originally one shot, were so dislocating that they induced brief spells of mal de mer.
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.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faces fell, for soldiers, like other mortals, fall victims to mal de mer.
From A Gallant Grenadier A Tale of the Crimean War by Brereton, F. S. (Frederick Sadleir)
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