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
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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.