Mother Carey

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Etymology

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Apparently from Latin mater cara (precious mother), which sometimes refers to the Virgin Mary.

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Mother Carey

  1. A supernatural figure personifying the cruel and threatening sea in the imagination of 18th- and 19th-century sailors.

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