Bêche-de-mer Definition

bezhdəmep
beche-de-mer
noun

Trepang.

Webster's New World
A mixed trade language, largely a pidgin based on English, spoken in island areas of the SW Pacific.
Webster's New World

Bêche-de-mer Sentence Examples

  • It is visited by the ocean steamers of several lines, and is the centre of a very extensive beche-de-mer and pearl fishery.

  • European industries include gold mining, in which 500 miners, besides natives, are engaged (chiefly in the Louisiade Archipelago), and the beche de mer and pearl-shell fisheries, which were formerly more productive than at present.

  • It has an excellent harbour, Port Kennedy, and is a port of call for mail steamers and the centre of the beche-de-mer and pearl fisheries of the Torres Strait.

  • Minor exports are cocoa, coco-de-mer and beche-de-mer.

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