matelotage
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English
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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French matelotage.
Noun
[edit]matelotage (plural matelotages)
- A social practice of same-sex civil union among seafarers in the 17th and 18th centuries.
- An instance of such a union.
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]matelotage m (usually uncountable, plural matelotages)
Further reading
[edit]- “matelotage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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