Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
yacht .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Seventeen new ships are joining the circuit this year, from the mammoth 2,766-passenger Majesty of the Seas, a floating hotel with an eye-popping atrium, to the intimate, yachtlike Renaissance VIII for 114 guests.
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The shipbuilders of House Majhellain constructed only three basic forms: the fat bulk cargo Hauler, the more common cargo/passenger Traveler, and the yachtlike Voyager for the rich.
The Dragon Never Sleeps Cook, Glen 1988
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Head and the other sand bluffs guarding this roadstead from the heave of the Atlantic rollers, the schooner with her yachtlike lines was truly a picture to please the most exacting mariner.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove A Story of Cape Cod James A. Cooper 1917
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Mere yachts in size we should call them, but far from yachtlike in shape or nimbleness.
The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871
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