matelot
Collocations
4ADJ.
black, used, wide
VERB + MATELOT
sweat
MATELOT + NOUN
trousers, vest
PREP.
with
Definitions
noun
A sailor.
Nor were they long finding what they sought for; first the grub matter was hunted up, and go where you would, you was sure to meet lots of Matelo’s [matelots—sailors] wending their way to their various quarters, loaded to the bends with what they called Belly Timber.
“‘Hellow,” says Jimmy, “here’s some dunnage as has belonged to some poor matelo’,” and with that he picks out a wad of somethin’ and begins for to open it.
A mate; a boon companion.
[…] "Among the Brethren of the Coast—we tykes no wimmen save in passing, as it were, they being bothersome, frail and scatterbrained creatures. Instead we tykes a blood-brother, or matelot ... A matelot, 'e fights along side o' yer, nurses yer if yer falls sick. Wots 'is is yours and whats yours is 'is ... Take Klaas yonder, and young Pedro [described earlier as a slender-hipped boy with deep feminine brown eyes]; they shared the same barbacoa six, seven year and ye'll never come on 'em more than a few yards apart." To this explanation [Harry] Morgan listened in growing amazement and began to comprehend why none of these bestial-appearing boucan makers had so much as addressed Kate.
adj
Associated with or typical of sailors.
In minor key, but just as picturesque, were the uniforms of the port labouring staff—white sweat shirt, black matelot trousers and wide-brimmed straw hat with flat crown.
A small, dark, ferretlike man in a sailor’s dark coat and a French matelot cap with a red pompom was behind her on the stairs.
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6Nor were they long finding what they sought for; first the grub matter was hunted up, and go where you would, you was sure to meet lots of Matelo’s [matelots—sailors] wending their way to their variou
Wiktionary“‘Hellow,” says Jimmy, “here’s some dunnage as has belonged to some poor matelo’,” and with that he picks out a wad of somethin’ and begins for to open it.
WiktionaryMatlo, name used to describe themselves by British bluejackets. Falling into disuse. Corruption of the French matelot.
WiktionaryIn minor key, but just as picturesque, were the uniforms of the port labouring staff—white sweat shirt, black matelot trousers and wide-brimmed straw hat with flat crown.
WiktionaryA small, dark, ferretlike man in a sailor’s dark coat and a French matelot cap with a red pompom was behind her on the stairs.
WiktionaryShe wore the kind of wide trousers and matelot vest that used to feature so strongly in the fashion plates of the Thirties, those outdoor shots that Norman Parkinson liked to take in the South of Fran
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