Meanings
nouncoraller (plural corallers)
plural corallers
- A person who dives into deep water to collect coral.
The Bahama corallers come over and collect various kinds of beautiful coral in the Florida seas, known as tree, finger, brain, and red coral.
1899, William Henry Parr Greswell, The United States and Their Industries, page 1801 more example
Corals were graded, and fetched prices accordingly. Curiously, the Jewish 'corallers' made even Christian religious objects, such as paternosters and crosses.
2011, Shlomo Simonsohn, Between Scylla and Charybdis: The Jews in Sicily, page 434
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Catalan coraler, coraller
- coralerperson who collects coral
- corallerperson who collects coral
Italian corallaro
- corallaroperson who collects coral
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