frigatoon
frigatoon noun: a Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
Noun
frigatoon (plural frigatoons)
- A Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
- "Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?"
"For the three-masted frigatoon."
"You are doubtless mistaken in her character!"
"I cannot be, my lord. No honest trader in these waters...1839, J.H. Ingraham, Captain Kyd; or, The Wizard of the Sea - If he would fit out and man a frigatoon for Constantinople, I would, I said, gladly make the voyage therein, the money being packed and treated as my baggage, but none the less faithfully delivered by me to Signor Mario Battista[…]1895, Walter Bloomfield, Holdenhurst Hall
- "Your protegé shall not want advancement through my forgetfulness, be assured, Kenard. But why are you so anxiously looking through your glass to the windward?"
Forms of frigatoon
| plural | frigatoons |
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Origin of frigatoon
From Italian fregatone. Compare French frégaton and see frigate.
Questions about frigatoon
- What does frigatoon mean?
- Frigatoon means a Venetian vessel with a square stern, having only a mainmast, jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.
- What part of speech is frigatoon?
- Frigatoon is a noun.
- What is the plural of frigatoon?
- The plural of frigatoon is frigatoons.
Words near frigatoon in the dictionary
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