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Marie Celeste, n.|ˌmarɪ sɪˈlɛst|
Also (more accurately) Mary |mɛərɪ|.
[Altered form of Mary Celeste, the name of an American cargo ship which in December 1872 was found mysteriously abandoned in the North Atlantic with sails set.]
Used allusively of a place suddenly and inexplicably deserted.
1937E. Wharton All Souls' in Ghosts 20 It's like the Mary Celeste—a Mary Celeste on terra firma... No one ever knew what happened on board the Mary Celeste. And perhaps no one will ever know what has happened here. 1969M. Allingham Case-bk. 27 The newspapers were calling the McGill house..‘the villa Marie Celeste’ before Chief Inspector Charles Luke noticed the similarity between the two mysteries. 1976T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey iii. ix. 184, I always think that this must be the way in which what I call ‘Marie Celeste’ hives are produced—a hive which is completely empty of bees, stores and brood, but in which every cell is cleaned up and in perfect condition. 1984J. Bedford Titron Madness iii. 30 ‘No sign of life, you say?’ Delaney shook his head... ‘Our very own Marie Celeste, eh? Interesting.’ 1989Sunday Tel. 31 Dec. 38/2 The rooms..have the fascination of a Marie Celeste on dry land. Everything is as she left it. |