brigantine
Americannoun
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a two-masted sailing vessel, square-rigged on the foremast and having a fore-and-aft mainsail with square upper sails.
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of brigantine
1515–25; < Medieval Latin brigantinus or Old Italian brigantino, originally, armed escort ship ( brigand, -ine 2 ); replacing brigandyn < Middle French brigandin
Example Sentences
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To restore his health, he dropped out at age 19, in 1834, signed on to a California-bound brigantine voyage — as anyone would, right? — and returned to Boston whole in body if not in spirit.
From Los Angeles Times
Cortés deployed newly built brigantines with sails, oarsmen and cannon while blockading supplies of food and fresh water to the city.
From Los Angeles Times
Zebu is a registered historic traditional brigantine rigged tall ship and was declared the National Historic Ships regional flagship of the year for the north-west in 2020.
From BBC
En route, they had built a larger boat—a brigantine—appropriate for the ever-widening waters, and they were attacked by a tribal force that included women warriors.
From The New Yorker
And the brigantines and the rest of the European military technology also won Cortés thousands of allies among Native American groups that were hostile to Aztec rule.
From Time
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