Noun: brigantine
| Singular | brigantine |
| Plural | brigantines |
Sample Sentences
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The Galles and thoſe pilling Briggandines,
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That yeerely ſaile to the Uenetian goulfe,
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And houer in the ſtraightes for Chriſtians wracke,
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Shall lie at anchor in the Iſle Aſant. [c. 1587–1588 (date written), [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene iii:]
Nouns inflected like brigantine
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Attested 1525, for a small rowing vessel, from earlier brigandyns, from Middle French brigandin, probably from Italian brigante (“skirmisher, pirate, brigand”), from Latin brigō (“to fight”). See: Italian Nouns '
brigante', Latin Nouns '
brigō'.
Verbs referencing "brigantine"
Finnish Nouns
brigantiini.