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How to pronounce barque in English?

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Synonyms bark
Type of sailing ship, sailing vessel

Examples of barque

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The four-masted barque first set sail in 1907 and is now a hotel and restaurant.
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For example, the USCGC Eagle is technically a barque and not a full rigged ship.
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They stand before the barque of Amun, and Nefertari is shown playing the sistra.
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The most important Egyptian barque carried the dead pharaoh to become a deity.
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Sometimes the water-birds are combined with circles, the so called sun-barque-motif.
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Some foreign vessels were impressed, including the 4 masted barque, Pamir.
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She was then adapted as a survey barque and took part in three expeditions.
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She is a three-masted barque and one of the largest remaining wooden ships in commission.
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The word barque appears to have come from the Greek word baris, a term for an Egyptian boat.
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  • Bark: a sailing ship with 3 (or more) masts
  • A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged; any small sailing vessel; a sailing vessel or boat of any kind
  • A boat in which the gods sailed. The barque of Ra carried a host of deities across the sky each day.
  • A vessel with three or more masts with square sails on the fore mast and fore and aft sails on the after mast. Generally in the range of 250 - 700 ton capacity.
  • (or bark): A ship or a portable shrine shaped like a ship (usually mythical, e.g. the Bargue of Re).