felucca

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  1. noun A narrow, swift, lateen-rigged sailing vessel, such as that used on the Nile or in the Mediterranean Sea.

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  • The felucca was already receding aft, though Shelley had to look upward as well as back to see it from where he was crouched at the edge of the Don Juan's slanted deck. —  Tim Powers - The Stress of Her Regard
  • Coming from thence in a felucca, accompanied by her brother, they were attacked by the Turkish admiral, boarded and taken.—And now how shall I modestly tell you the rest of her adventure? —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • Lanterns glowed on the bow, forward mast, both sides, and stern, and the felucca was barely moving. —  Dan Simmons - Hockenberry 1 - Ilium
  • We would travel by felucca, the swift, shallow sailing-boats, up the river as far as Majibara, the great caravanserai that marked the end of Menekhet and the border of Jebe-Barkal itself. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
  • One of my most unpredictable glimpses of Cairo life came at dawn, during a Nile River ride on a felucca -- a type of wooden sailboat that has been around since antiquity. —  Madison.com - top
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  1. 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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  1. Formerly also filuca, falucco (= French felouque = Germanfelucke, etc.), from Italian felucca, feluca = Spanish falua, faluca = Portuguese falua, from Arabic falūka, from fulk, a ship, from falaka, be round (Engelmann, Mahn, etc.).
 

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