felucca
Americannoun
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a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
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a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.
noun
Etymology
Origin of felucca
1620–30; earlier falluca < Spanish faluca, earlier variant of falúa, perhaps < Catalan faluga < Arabic falūwah small cargo ship
Example Sentences
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He left Naples on a felucca, a sailing boat, in the middle of July, taking three paintings with him as presents for the cardinal.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020
The felucca set sail without him but with his paintings still on board.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2020
Much better is a felucca, which floats down the river like a twig, with one last leaf as a sail.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2010
Along that green cobra live 16,000,000 people, of whom 2,000,000 last week took advantage of fare reductions to journey to Cairo by train, steamer, felucca, autobus, camel and donkey.
From Time Magazine Archive
From their accounts I should imagine it to be a felucca.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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