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Pot-au-Noir
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pot au noir pot-au-noir
French
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Pronunciation
Potte‿au-Noir
Proper noun
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fr geography doldrums
fr zone de convergence intertropicale
fr 1955 w:Claude Lévi-Strauss Tristes Tropiques Tristes Tropiques 1993 Plon (publisher) Plon 978-2-259-00359-9 VIII 79 Penguin 978-0-14-197073-8 2011 John & Doreen Weightman On approchait du Pot-au-Noir, redouté des anciens navigateurs. Les vents propres aux deux hémisphères s'arrêtent de part et d'autre de cette zone où les voiles pendait pendant des semaines, sans un souffle pour les animer. — We were approaching Le Pot-au-Noir (the Doldrums) which was greatly feared by the old navigators. The winds peculiar to both hemispheres stop on either side of this area, and the sails would hang for weeks on end without a single breath of wind to stir them into life.