brigantine

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a brigantine rigged vessel

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtin/, /ˈbɹɪɡ.ənˌtaɪn/

Etymology 1

Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).

Noun

brigantine (plural brigantines)

  1. (nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
    • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. The First Part , 2nd edition, part 1, London: Richard Iones, , published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
      The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
      That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
      And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
      Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.
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Etymology 2

Variant form.

Noun

brigantine (plural brigantines)

  1. Alternative form of brigandine

French

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Noun

brigantine f (plural brigantines)

  1. trapeze-shaped type of sail

References

  • Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition

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