lateen in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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All along the coast, many towns promote the age-old practice of fishing by lateen sail boats for tourism and on festival occasions.
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Locally built traditional lateen sail fishing boats (luggers) can be spotted in the harbour.
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The balancelle, a Mediterranean coasting and fishing boat of the 19th century, also used a single lateen sail.
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It had a foremast with square sails and three other masts with a lateen each, for a total of 4 masts.
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Settees had two lateen-rigged masts, like xebecs or galleys, but carrying settee sails.
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It was usually square-rigged on the foremast and mainmast and lateen-rigged on the mizzenmast.
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Expecting trouble, the fighting ships hoist up their lateen sails and load up their cannon.
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Advances in shipbuilding included the multi-masted ships with lateen sails, the sternpost-mounted rudder and the skeleton-first hull construction.
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The mainmast was lateen-rigged with a trapezoidal mainsail, but the foremast carried the conventional square course and square topsail.
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Instead, the lowest sail on the mizzen was usually a fore/aft sailoriginally a lateen sail, but later a gaff sail called a spanker or driver.
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