tartan
/ˈtɑɹtn̩/ noun C2- A type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.
Plural tartans
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It was at the brigantine that had left in the morning, and the tartan that had just set sail, that Edmond fixed his eyes.
As Dantès (his eyes turned in the direction of the Château d’If) uttered this prayer, he saw off the farther point of the Island of Pomègue a small vessel with lateen sail skimming the sea like a gull in search of prey; and with his sailor’s eye he knew it to be a Genoese tartan.
However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
This time he was both seen and heard, and the tartan instantly steered towards him.
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