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  • adjective rigged with a triangular (lateen sail).

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  • adjective rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail

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Examples

  • The two-masted, lateen-rigged ships of the unforgotten midland sea were still unknown to these Norse seafarers.

    His Disposition 2010

  • In the distance, at the horizon, there were sails, the sails of lateen-rigged vessels.

    Cinnamon Roll 2010

  • The single lateen-rigged mast was stepped solidly into the keep fore of the cabin.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Fanshawe counted ninety-six craft, stretched from shore to shore: square-riggers, lateen-rigged gunboats, fast galleys.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • Fanshawe counted ninety-six craft, stretched from shore to shore: square-riggers, lateen-rigged gunboats, fast galleys.

    John Paul Jones 9781451603996 2003

  • I could see, out beyond the wall of chained rafts, opened now in three places, a flotilla of sails, long and low, triangular, sloping, those of lateen-rigged galleys.

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts.

    Explorers Of Gor Norman, John, 1931- 1980

  • She had two lateen-rigged sails, and the wind was in her favour.

    The Weird Of The White Wolf Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1977

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