What is "matelot"

Usage examples of "matelot".

Le Petit Matelot,--the first of those shops which have since been established in Paris with more or less of painted signs, floating banners, show-cases filled with swinging shawls, cravats arranged like houses of cards, and a thousand other commercial seductions, such as fixed prices, fillets of suspended objects, placards, illusions and optical effects carried to such a degree of perfection that a shop-front has now become a commercial poem.

A crewman in a striped matelot shirt stood on the forepeak and watched the chain plummet.

All I can say is, when you get out on the street and strut your stuff, I hope you get picked up by some sex-starved matelot who fucks some sense into that impervious skull of yours.

Lawrence, at the Sault au Matelot, a tall figure clad in a cassock stood and watched the river below.

But when they were at sea together, Lord Alexandros was hers alone for the length of the voyage and she took full advantage of him and his rare ability to fully fulfill her, as lover, as matelot, as caring friend, as knowledgeable teacher in the ways of the sea.

Because Chez Matelot was a haven for young people low on funds but high on commitment, the casual drinker in search of a cheap drink or a quick pickup quickly discovered that he was better served elsewhere.

Charles, from the great cliff called the Saut au Matelot to the palace of the intendant.

At length, before dawn on the morning of the sixteenth, the sentinels on the Saut au Matelot could descry the slowly moving lights of distant vessels.

We were swinging back now towards the bare fat bull-dozed expanse of Gan and as we crossed the runway end I saw some wag of a matelot had painted in enormous white letters - YOU ARE NOW UNDER THE PROTECTION OF THE ROYAL NAVY.

It would be the natural thing for a matelot who was trying to better himself.

Between them, side dishes were set on the table: pigeons a la Crapaudine, petits pates, a matelot of eels, and a fricassee of chicken.

Two matelots were manning it - one had just slammed a magazine in and the other was swinging the gun around to train it just about midships.

Every kitchen maid and barman, matelot and mechanic, hackney driver and barrowman is on the lookout should they make any move to leave the pub.

Francais, si vous montrez quelque resistance, mes matelots vous Jerez morts, vitement!

Between them, side dishes were set on the table: pigeons a la Crapaudine, petits pates, a matelot of eels, and a fricassee of chicken.