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corvet

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cor⋅vette

[kawr-vet]
–noun
1. a warship of the old sailing class, having a flush deck and usually one tier of guns.
2. a lightly armed, fast ship used mostly for convoy escort and ranging in size between a destroyer and a gunboat.
Also, cor⋅vet [kawr-vet, kawr-vet] .


Origin:
1630–40; < F, MF < MD corver pursuit boat (deriv. of corf fishing boat, lit., basket), with suffix altered to -ette -ette
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