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felucca

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fe·luc·ca  (f-lk, -lk)
n.
A narrow, swift, lateen-rigged sailing vessel, such as that used on the Nile or in the Mediterranean Sea.
[Italian feluca, from Arabic falka, sloop, from Greek epholkion, small boat towed after a ship, from ephelkein, to tow : ep-, epi-, epi- + helkein, to drag, pull.]
felucca [fɛˈlʌkə]
n
(Transport / Nautical Terms) a narrow lateen-rigged vessel of the Mediterranean
[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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Noun1.feluccafelucca - a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean
sailing ship, sailing vessel - a vessel that is powered by the wind; often having several masts
Translations
felucca
n → Feluke f


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The felucca is waiting for us, you know; let us leave to-night, we have nothing more to do here.
Twenty Years After by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Two men and a horse will suffice to transport the two casks on board the felucca which brought me hither.
Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
] "A Henry cinq cedera (his crown of course); de Saint-Cloud partira; en nauf (that's an old French word for skiff, vessel, felucca, corvette, anything you like) errera--"
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