matelot
/ˈmatləʊ
/noun British informal
A sailor.TV chiefs are to hold a talent contest to find the best singing sailors, matelots, seamen and ship-hands in the country, and offer them a top music contract by way of a prize....
- The torpedo broke the destroyer's back, causing her to sink in 15 seconds and thus consigning hundreds of exhausted troops and matelots to their deaths.
- And the skill of sailing is matched in these young modern matelots by the skill of recovery from the capsize.
Origin
Mid 19th century (nautical slang): from French, variant of matenot, from Middle Dutch mattenoot 'bed companion', because sailors had to share hammocks in twos.
- toile de soie
- toilenette
- toiler
- toilet
- toilet accessory
- toilet appointment
- toilet attendant
- toilet bag
- toilet basket
- toilet block
- toilet bowl
- toilet box
- toilet break
- toilet brush
- Quakeristic
- Quakerize
- Quaker ladies
- Quaker-like
- Quakerly
- Quaker meeting
- Quaker Oats
- Quaker parakeet
- Quaker parrot
- quaker's button
- Quakers' meeting