felucca
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English
Etymology
From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).
Noun
felucca (plural feluccas)
- A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
- 1831, L E L[andon], Romance and Reality. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, pages 151–152:
- "We are very fortunate, Senhora," said Alvarez, as soon as they were in the street; "there is a felucca on the point of sailing to Naples—I have secured a passage, but we must not lose a minute."
- 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
- Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
- "The ghostly feluccas passing along the canal are crewed by ghouls with wrapped heads." Lawrence Durrell, Justine
Translations
sailing boat
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