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Definition of Matelotes
1. matelote [n] - See also: matelote
Lexicographical Neighbors of Matelotes
Literary usage of Matelotes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... and they brought in then- hands Crosses, and saluted the Spaniards in the
Spanish tongue, saying, Buenas dias, matelotes, that is to say, ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The Iles of matelotes. PURCHAS HIS PILGRIMES In the same yeere 1542. Don Anthonie
de Mendoça, sent unto the Hands of Mindanao a Fleete of sixe Ships with ..."
3. Names and Their Histories: A Handbook of Historical Geography and by Isaac Taylor (1898)
"matelotes, a group in the Carolines, was so named by Villalobos, in 1545, because
the natives came out in canoes, crying buenos días, ..."
4. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"The lles of matelotes. In the same yeere 1542. Don Anthonie de Mendoca, sent unto
the Hands of Mindanao a Fleete of sixe Ships with foure hundred Souldiers, ..."
5. The Universal Magazine (1793)
"... man in ths world for providing weddi ig-dinners, and for cooking matelotes.
1 was brought up in his tavern ; and, at the age of fourteen, ..."
6. The Discoveries of the World, from Their First Original Unto the Year of Our by António Galvão, Richard Hakluyt, Charles Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune (1862)
"matelotes.o' In the same yeere 1543, the first of February, Rui Lopez had sight
of that noble island Mindanao, standing in 9 Mindanao. degrees : they could ..."
7. On the Grampian Hills: Grouse and Ptarmigan Shooting, Deer Stalking, Salmon by Frederick Feild Whitehurst (1882)
"... and small, beautifully-shaped hands and feet, after the fashion of matelotes
in general, who are remarkable for those essentials to beauty of form. ..."
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