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frigatoons

frigatoons is the plural of frigatoon.

Meaning of frigatoon

Noun

frigatoon (plural frigatoons)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about frigatoons

What is frigatoons the plural of?
Frigatoons is the plural of frigatoon.

Words near frigatoons in the dictionary

  1. frigate tunas
  2. frigatebird
  3. frigatebirds
  4. frigates
  5. frigatoon
  6. frigatoons
  7. frigefaction
  8. frigefactions
  9. frigefactive
  10. frigefied
  11. frigefies

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Adapted from Wiktionary: frigatoons (page history and authors); frigatoon (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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