barque
Americannoun
noun
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a sailing ship of three or more masts having the foremasts rigged square and the aftermast rigged fore-and-aft
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poetic any boat, esp a small sailing vessel
Etymology
Origin of barque
C15: from Old French, from Old Provençal barca , from Late Latin, of unknown origin
Example Sentences
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Barque Canada Reef, Vietnam’s largest and most sophisticated artificial island in the South China Sea, illustrates major new facilities and their purpose.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 3, 2025
For the Salon of 1822, he painted “The Barque of Dante,” a terrifying vision of the great Florentine poet on a small, tempest-tossed boat, besieged by the damned in hell.
From Washington Post • Apr. 12, 2018
The evening’s oddest item is Mr. Binet’s “The Blue of Distance,” set to two beautifully imaginative pieces of Ravel piano music, “Oiseaux Tristes” and “Une Barque sur l’Océan.”
From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2015
As you’d expect in South Africa, some early artists identified with the sea as well; early 19th-century artist Thomas Bowler’s Wreck of the Barque Royal Albert evokes Winslow Homer.
From Forbes • May 8, 2015
Barque Elizabeth, from Calcutta to Dundee with jute.
From Round the World in Seven Days by Strang, Herbert
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