felucca

[ fuh-luhk-uh, -loo-kuh ]

/ fəˈlʌk ə, -ˈlu kə /

noun

a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.

a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.

Nearby words

felt side, felt-tip pen, felting, feltwork, felty's syndrome, felucca, felv, felwort, fem, fem lib, fem.

Origin of felucca

1620–30; earlier falluca < Spanish faluca, earlier variant of falúa, perhaps < Catalan faluga < Arabic falūwah small cargo ship

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Examples from the Web for felucca

This felucca was quite a formidable craft of her class, measuring, I should say, close upon two hundred tons.
The Rover's Secret|Harry Collingwood
The sufferings of the poor man while in the felucca can hardly be imagined.
Jack in the Forecastle|John Sherburne Sleeper
Here is the lugger to take the place of the felucca, and we can sail this very night.
The Wing-and-Wing|J. Fenimore Cooper
She had gone under, swamped by an overwhelming sea or overborne by a felucca that ran her down.
The Real Shelley, Vol. II (of 2)|John Cordy Jeaffreson

Having procured the Pope's pardon for his original offence, he hired a felucca and set sail for Rome.
A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery, Volume I, Foreign Schools|Various

British Dictionary definitions for felucca

felucca

/ (fɛˈlʌkə) /

noun

a narrow lateen-rigged vessel of the Mediterranean

Word Origin for felucca

C17: from Italian felucca, probably from obsolete Spanish faluca, probably from Arabic fulūk ships, from Greek epholkion small boat, from ephelkein to tow

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