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RECENT POSTSoutre-mer
oo-truh-maer
noun
unknown lands; distant territory; overseas
1842A New HomeHis outre-mer adventures are of no importance to my story—how, as he stood with two or three messmates, staring, like a true Yankee, at the Tower of London, a press-gang seized them all, and rowed them to a vessel which lay off the Traitor’s Gate, the Americans protesting themselves such, and the John Bulls laughing at them…1891Noto: An Unexplored Corner of JapanThe day had grown older and I wiser by the time my letters were read, with their strange perfume from outre-mer, the horses harnessed afresh, and we under way once more, clattering down the main street of the village.2002The Shadow of the LionOr maybe hire on as a hand on an Outremer-bound ship?Labels: Caroline Matilda Kirkland, Mercedes Lackey and Eric Flint and David Freer, Percival Lowell
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