Polacre

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A 17th-century three-masted merchant ship. historical, obsolete

    "Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?"

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"Before the Princess went to Palestine, do you know in what part of the polacre she slept?"

Etymology

Uncertain; from either French polacre (“Pole, Polish”) or Italian polacca (“Polish woman, Polish (feminine adj)”).

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