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Lateen

adjective
1.
Rigged with a triangular (lateen) sail.  Synonym: lateen-rigged.



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lateen-rig


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"Lateen" Quotes from Famous Books



... vivid is the vision of the light craft with its lateen sail outside Triest, in which Waring—the Flying Englishman—is seen "with great grass hat and kerchief black," looking up for a moment, showing his "kingly throat," till suddenly in the sunset splendour the boat veers weather-ward and goes off, as with a bound, "into the rose and golden half ...
— Robert Browning • Edward Dowden


Words linked to "Lateen" :   rigged, fore-and-aft sail


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