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Felucca

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    ""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.""

  2. 2
    a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean wordnet

Etymology

From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

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