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Word entry · 7 letters

felucca

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"Narrow sailing boat"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPart of speech nounSorted accefluStarts with FEnds with A1 clues
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Definitions

  1. a fast narrow sailing ship of the Mediterranean

Word origin

From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

Used in a sentence

  • "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."
  • 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

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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