trabacolo

• "That is his ship; over there, between the 'trabacolo' and the dismasted hulk I see her," returned Pasquale at once. —  Marietta A Maid of Venice
• "That is his ship; over there, between the 'trabacolo' and the dismasted hulk." —  Marietta A Maid of Venice
• He knew that he should starve if he came back to Venice, and what was the pleasant smell of the cabbage stalks and water-melons that it should compare with the security of daily bread and lodging, with some money to spare, and two suits of clothes every year, which his master gave him in return for keeping a single door shut He pushed out upon the Grand Canal, where as yet there were few boats and no gondolas at all, and soon he turned the corner of the Salute and rowed out slowly upon the Giudecca, where the merchant vessels lay at anchor, large and small, galliots and feluccas and many a broad 'trabacolo' from the Istrian coast, with huge spreading bows, and hawse ports painted scarlet like great red eyes. —  Marietta A Maid of Venice
• 'trabacolo' from the Istrian coast, with huge spreading bows, and hawse ports painted scarlet like great red eyes. —  Marietta A Maid of Venice

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