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French
Etymology
From Middle French saumace, ultimately from Latin salmacidus, doublet of saumâtre.
Adjective
saumache (plural saumaches)
- (only said of water, dialectal, mostly Genevan and sailor cant, obsolete) brackish, resembling, approaching the taste of salt water
1767, Voltaire, “XXI.ix.49-52”, in La Défense de mon oncle :Les nez coupés purent se procurer à force de soins de quelques eaux de citernes, ou se servir de quelques puits qui fournissaient de l’eau saumache et mal-saine, laquelle donne communément une espèce de scorbut et de lèpre".- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1772, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, chapter 9, in Voyage autour du monde, volume 1:Deux petites rivières se déchargent dans la baie, l’eau est saumache à leur embouchure, mais à cinq cents pas au dessus elle est très bonne. […]- Two small rivers empty in the bay, the water is brackish at their mouth but perfectly fine some five hundred paces uphill.
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Noun
saumache f (plural saumaches)
- (dialectal, mostly Genevan and sailor cant, obsolete) brackish water
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