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Seamen gathered round seafront in a group? (2,5)

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I believe the answer is:

en masse

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'in a group?' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)

'seamen gathered round seafront' is the wordplay.
'gathered' indicates an anagram (the letters are gathered into a new order).
'round' indicates putting letters inside.
'seafront' becomes 's' (this might be a standard abbreviation I've not previously seen).
'seamen' with letters rearranged gives 'enmase'.
'enmase' going around 's' is 'EN MASSE'.

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(Other definitions for en masse that I've seen before include "All together as a group" , "Sees man (anag.)" , "As a body (Fr.)" , "All together - in France (2.5)" , "Many as one" .)

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