Saturday, April 4, 2015

Word of the Day

mal de mer
\mal duh MER\
noun
1. French. seasickness.

Quotes
When the mal de mer seizes me I, Hercule Poirot, am a creature with no gray cells…
-- Agatha Christie, Death in the Clouds, 1935

Origin
Mal de mer came to English in the 1700s from French.

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