Tafferel

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A carved panel.
  2. 2
    The flat upper part of a ship's stern above the transom, often decorated with carvings.
  3. 3
    The taffrail.

    "A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop."

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"A true Chinese junk is a great curiosity; the model must have been taken originally from a bread-trough, being broad and square at both ends—when light, (I speak of a large one,) it is full thirty feet from the surface of the water to the tafferel, or the highest part of the poop."

Etymology

From Dutch tafereel (“panel, picture”), diminutive of tafel (“table”), from Latin tabula (“table”).

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