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felucca

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fe⋅luc⋅ca

  [fuh-luhk-uh, -loo-kuh]
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–noun
1. a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
2. a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.
Origin:
1620–30; earlier falluca < Sp faluca, earlier var. of falúa, perh. < Catalan faluga < Ar falūwah small cargo ship
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fe·luc·ca   (fə-lōō'kə, -lŭk'ə)   
n.  A narrow, swift, lateen-rigged sailing vessel, such as that used on the Nile or in the Mediterranean Sea.

[Italian feluca, from Arabic falūka, sloop, from Greek epholkion, small boat towed after a ship, from ephelkein, to tow : ep-, epi-, epi- + helkein, to drag, pull.]
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