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French
Etymology
From démâter (“to unmast; to dismast”) + -ment.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de.mat.mɑ̃/ ~ /de.mɑt.mɑ̃/
Noun
démâtement m (plural démâtements)
- unmasting, demasting, dismasting
- Synonym: démâtage
- Antonyms: mâtage, mâtement
1860, E. Jurien de la Gravière, Guerres maritimes sous la république et l'empire, page 325:Il ne vous échappera pas enfin que le démâtement du vaisseau le Neptune qui suivit celui du grand mât de l’Atlas prêt à tomber pouvait avoir les conséquences les plus fâcheuses pour peu que je me fusse obstiné à tenir la mer.- It will indeed not escape you that the unmasting of the ship the Neptune, which followed that of the mainmast of the Atlas, which is ready to fall, could have had the most regrettable consequences for me had I resolutely sailed the open sea.
1877, Louis Édouard Chevalier, Histoire de la marine française pendant la guerre de l'indépendance américaine, page 279:À son arrivée à Brest, le chef d’escadre de Lamotte-Picquet écrivit au ministre pour lui recommander quelques hommes de son équipage qu’avaient été blessés dans le démâtement de son vaisseau.- On his arrival in Brest, the leader of the Lamotte-Picquet squadron wrote to the minister to recommend to him some men from his crew who had been wounded in the demasting of his ship.
2006, Isabelle Autissier, Kerguelen:De n’avoir pas commandé la manœuvre lors du démâtement du Cap...- Of not having been in charge of the manoeuvre during the unmasting of the Cap...