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felucca

felucca noun: a traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.

Noun

felucca (plural feluccas)

  1. A traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
    • "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."1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, pages 151–152
    • 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.1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435

Forms of felucca

pluralfeluccas

Origin of felucca

From Italian feluca, from Arabic فَلُوكَة (falūka).

Questions about felucca

What does felucca mean?
Felucca means a traditional wooden shallow-draught sailing boat used in the Mediterranean and along the Nile in Egypt, its rig consisting of one or two lateen sails.
What part of speech is felucca?
Felucca is a noun.
What is the plural of felucca?
The plural of felucca is feluccas.

Words near felucca in the dictionary

  1. feltyfare
  2. feltyfares
  3. Feltys
  4. Feltz
  5. Feltzes
  6. felucca
  7. feluccas
  8. Felup
  9. felvizumab
  10. felwoort
  11. felwoorts

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