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French
Etymology
From mer (“sea”), from Latin mare.
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Noun
marée f (plural marées)
- tide
1842, Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau, L’Archipel de Chausey, souvenirs d’un Naturaliste, Revue des Deux Mondes, volume 30:C’est à Granville que j’ai fait connaissance avec l’Océan, c’est là que pour la première fois j’ai su ce qu’est une marée. […] Lorsque je vis disparaître peu à peu cette belle plage que je venais de parcourir et les vagues se briser en écume contre ces rochers naguère si éloignés d’elles; lorsque ces navires de commerce, ces bateaux pêcheurs, ces canots, quelques instants auparavant couchés sur un lit de fange noirâtre, se redressèrent successivement pour flotter, bientôt en pleine eau, ce spectacle me remua profondément.- It was at Granville where I made the acquaintance of the Ocean. It was there that I knew, for the first time, what a tide was. When I saw that beautiful beach I had just passed through disappear little by little, and the waves break into foam against those rocks formerly so distant from them; when those merchant ships, those fishing boats, those dinghies, lying on a bed of blackish mire a few moments before, sat up straight one by one to float, soon in full water, the spectacle touched me deeply.
- catch (of fish)
1873, Jules Verne, Le Pays des fourrures, Paris: J. Hetzel et Compagnie:[…] mais, grâce à eux, la «marée ne manqua jamais», et le lagon ou la rivière leur livraient journellement de magnifiques échantillons de la famille des salmonées.- But thanks to them, the "catch was never lacking," and the lagoon or the river daily delivered them magnificent samples of the salmon family.
- (figurative) anything that forms a great crowd, a wave
2023 January 5, “«Plus on est de fous...»: l'Asie se prépare au retour attendu des touristes chinois”, in Agence France-Press:À Séoul, Son Kyung-rak se prépare déjà à accueillir une marée de voyageurs venus du continent.- In Seoul, Son Kyung-rak is already bracing himself to welcome a wave of travelers from the continent.
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