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‖ bêche-de-mer|bɛʃ də mɛr|
[Fr., altered from biche de mer, a. Pg. bicho do mar, lit. sea-worm.]
A marine animal, an echinoderm (Holothuria edulis), called also Trepang, Sea-cucumber, Sea-slug, eaten as a luxury by the Chinese. Hence a vb. to bêche-de-mer. b. = Beach-la-mar.
1814Flinders Voy. Terra Austr. in Penny Cycl. XII. 270/2 The beche-de-mer, or sea-cucumber, which we had first seen on the reefs of the east coast. 1847Carpenter Zool. §1023 Those who go bêche-de-mer-ing, as the employment is commonly termed. 1849W. T. Power Sketches in N.Z. xxiii. 216 The bêche-de-mer and shark-fins, both of which..are valuable articles of trade with China. 1884[see sea-slug 1]. 1911J. London Cruise of Snark xvi, Bêche de mer English was the product of conditions and circumstances. 1947I. L. Idriess Isles of Despair xxxviii. 251 The venturesome crews had found a rich patch of bêche-de-mer. 1951Amer. Speech XXVI. 25 The pidgin of Hawaii differs markedly from the pidgin English..of the China coast, the pidgin of Melanesia, and the bêche-de-mer of the western Pacific. |