brigantine
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Etymology 1[edit]
Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”).
Noun[edit]
brigantine (plural brigantines)
- (nautical) a two-masted vessel, square-rigged on the foremast, but fore-and-aft-rigged mainsail with a square-rig above it on the mainmast.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:
- The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant.
Synonyms[edit]
- hermaphrodite brig (the synonymy is controversial)
Translations[edit]
square-rigged foremast with main mast rigged fore-and-aft, sailing vessel
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Etymology 2[edit]
Variant form.
Noun[edit]
brigantine (plural brigantines)
- Alternative form of brigandine
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Noun[edit]
brigantine f (plural brigantines)
- trapeze-shaped type of sail
References[edit]
- Nouveau Petit Larousse illustré. Dictionnaire encyclopédique. Paris, Librairie Larousse, 1952, 146th edition
Further reading[edit]
- “brigantine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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