felucca
a sailing vessel, lateen-rigged on two masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea and along the Spanish and Portuguese coasts.
a small fishing boat formerly used in the San Francisco Bay area.
Origin of felucca
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How to use felucca in a sentence
"And José Medina owns two hundred motor-feluccas and employs eighteen thousand men," answered Hillyard.
The Summons | A.E.W. MasonJust as they had sighted the land they fell in with three piratical feluccas, either one of which was a match for the Active.
From Powder Monkey to Admiral | W.H.G. KingstonLateen-rigged feluccas, with white sails set, are wafted to and fro by the gentle breeze.
Glories of Spain | Charles W. WoodThere were galleys and caravels, barques and feluccas, pinnaces and caraccas.
Christopher Columbus, Complete | Filson YoungFar off in the summer haze picturesque feluccas, with their white lateen sails, glided to and fro with slow dream-like motion.
The Shadow of the Czar | John R. Carling
British Dictionary definitions for felucca
/ (fɛˈlʌkə) /
a narrow lateen-rigged vessel of the Mediterranean
Origin of felucca
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