barque
pronunciation
How to pronounce barque in British English:
UK [bɑ:k]
How to pronounce barque in American English:
US [bɑrk]
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- Noun:
- a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
Word Origin
- barque
- barque: see embark
- barque (n.)
- variant of bark (n.2).
Example
- 1. Why they call you jimmy barque ?
- 2. Music from the past medieval to barque .
- 3. The term baraka is a sufi one and from which our french barque and italian barca is derived .
- 4. This is a stormy economic world , and an independent scotland would be a small , vulnerable barque . It would depend on oil for some 18 % of its gdp , making it subject to shifts in global commodity prices .