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  • noun Plural form of seafarer.

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Examples

  • But that is a tendency shared by many seafarers from the Greeks to the Elizabethans.

    Eaters Of The Dead Crichton, Michael, 1942- 1976

  • This church of the Liverpool seafarers, which is on the Liverpool waterfront.

    British Blogs 2008

  • Although the Minoans are best known as seafarers, excavations at the site of Zominthos, nestled in a plateau on Mt. Ida, Crete’s highest mountain, have shown that they were also highlanders.

    Voyage to Crete: Zominthos 2009

  • The ancient Minoans are best known as seafarers, but excavations at the site of Zominthos, nestled in a plateau on Mt. Ida, Crete’s highest mountain, have shown that they were also highlanders.

    Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project 2009

  • These, he said, were not part of the emergency services but responded as "seafarers" when an emergency took place.

    The Daily Record - Home 2009

  • Significantly, two of the fops mentioned in the newspaper, “Tom Tug” and “Jack Tinsel,” were both seafarers.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • Pirates and other rowdy seafarers also helped create something that, were we to see it now, we would call gay liberation.

    A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

  • I would imagine the lives of all those seafarers and wonder at their labour.

    Hastings pier: once a place for solace and reflection Erwin James 2010

  • "For all their criminal behavior, Somali pirates have not gone out of their way to directly hurt or kill seafarers -- until now."

    Somali pirates' killing of Americans signals increasing turn toward violence 2011

  • My uncle, himself a master mariner with Cunard, used to get seriously cross when he heard people talk about the captain of a ship (he did admit that the Royal Navy could do what they damn well liked, but that was not expressed in a spirit of generosity and tolerance to his fellow seafarers).

    Master and captain 2009

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