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POLACCA

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 902 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POLACCA  , the

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Italian name for a three-masted
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merchant
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vessel, formerly
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common in the eastern
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waters of the Mediterranean . The masts were of one piece and the sails were square or
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lateen-shaped . The name appears in various forms in other
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languages, e.g . Fr. polaque or polacre, Sp. polacra, Du. polaak or Ger . Polack, and certainly means
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Polish, although there is no explanation to be found for any connexion between
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Poland and such a Mediterranean vessel .

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