lateener

Variant of lateen

adjective

designating or of a triangular, fore-and-aft-rigged sail attached to a long yard suspended obliquely from a short mast: now used chiefly on Mediterranean vessels

Origin: Fr latine < (voile) latine, Latin (sail) < fem. of L Latinus, Latin

noun

a lateen-rigged vessel
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