pipi
Americannoun
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an edible bivalve of eastern Australia, Plebidonax deltoides.
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an edible bivalve of New Zealand, Mesodesma novae-zelandiae.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of pipi
Borrowed into English from Maori around 1810–20
Example Sentences
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Today, the dames pipi number barely a dozen, mostly older women who are first-generation immigrants from places like Guinea, Togo and Vietnam.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015
Such was their prominence that, as the French essayist Claude Lussac notes, one dame pipi became the subject of a brief character sketch in Marcel Proust’s sprawling novel “Remembrance of Things Past.”
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015
It was that sense of connection to place that at least some of the remaining dames pipi said they loved about their job.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015
“The work was hard, but it was my job” said Pham Tai Doa, 65, who has worked as a dame pipi for 15 of the 25 years since she arrived in France from Vietnam.
From New York Times • Sep. 28, 2015
Day after day, week after week, they waited on him, by turns guarding him and fishing for him, bringing him soft delicious morsels of crab and pipi and tender fish.
From The Sun's Babies by Howes, Edith
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