lateen-rigged
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lateen-rigged
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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August 2005 Originally built for the transport of goods, the 80-foot Tusitiri is an African dhow, or lateen-rigged ship, which anchors at Lamu Island, Kenya, and can be chartered.
From Architectural Digest ● Mar. 1, 2010
Dr. Welsh has assembled many of the best-known paintings, from the burning and writhing Sunflowers through the spiky lateen-rigged boats on the Camargue beach at Stes.-Maries;
From Time Magazine Archive
Presently a lateen-rigged craft, a pilot vessel, came sweeping out from behind the high, threatening rocks, on the summit of which the massive fortifications guarding the entrance of the port were now discernible.
From The Three Lieutenants by Webb, Archibald
At Leghorn Cooper engaged a Genovese felucca, "La Bella Genovese,—a craft of thirty tons, beautiful mould, lateen-rigged, carrying two of that sail and a jib, and ten men for her crew."
From James Fenimore Cooper by Phillips, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)
He was supposed by some speedily to have taken to his old courses, and several merchantmen reported that they had been chased by a suspicious-looking lateen-rigged craft, on their passage between Gibraltar and Malta.
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by Hoggans, T.
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