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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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A nao was a Portuguese term nef or nau in French for a full-rigged round ship, with large square-rigged sails on two or three masts, sometimes with a lateen-rigged mizzen and a smaller mast called a bonaventure abaft the mizzen.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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At sea a bonaventure was the French name for a very short mizzen mast, stepped abaft a tall mainmast—in much the same way that this young Indian lad tagged along behind the governor.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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At sea a bonaventure was the French name for a very short mizzen mast, stepped abaft a tall mainmast—in much the same way that this young Indian lad tagged along behind the governor.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They carried a spritsail on a yard under the high-angled bowsprit, and a lateen sail on a mizzen or a bonaventure.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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They carried a spritsail on a yard under the high-angled bowsprit, and a lateen sail on a mizzen or a bonaventure.
Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008
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The supplies he was giving us were in long sarcins of about the bigness of a demicannon's barrel lashed to the base of the bonaventure.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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Abaft the main-mast were the mizzen, carrying one sail, on a lateen yard, one arm of which nearly touched the deck; and the bonaventure mizzen (which we now call the jigger) rigged in exactly the same way.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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So canted was she that her mainyard dipped one of its steel sickles into the glassy water, and, had her foremast remained, or more than the broken stump of her bonaventure mizzen, she must have turned over completely.
Widdershins Oliver [pseud.] Onions 1917
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Telofy commented on the word bonaventure
See sarcin.
October 1, 2008