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Nautical denoting a rig with a triangular sail (lateen sail) bent to a yard hoisted to the head of a low mast, used esp in the Mediterranean

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No references found			I owe to her the awakened love for the sea that, with the quivering of her swift little body and the humming of the wind under the foot of her lateen sails, stole into my heart with a sort of gentle violence, and brought my imagination under its despotic sway. The Mirror of the Sea by Conrad, Joseph View in context His crew sullenly tailed on to the halyards, and the strange, outlandish sail, lateen in rig and dyed a warm brown, rose in the air. Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context A lateen sail was visible in the direction of Cat Island, and others to the south seemed almost motionless in the far distance. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories by Chopin, Kate View in context			Latah County Latakia Latania latanier latch latch bolt latch needle latch plate Latch, William latch-in relay latch-up phenomenon latchet latchkey latchstring late binding late blight late gene Late Georgian style Late Glacial Period Late Gothic Revival Late Greek Late Latin Late Rococo Late Victorian architecture late-type star lateen latency Latency Period latent Latent Agrarian Overpopulation latent bud Latent Criminality latent defect latent failure latent heat latent heat of fusion latent heat of sublimation latent heat of vaporization latent Herschel effect latent homosexuality latent image latent instability latent load latent period Latent Photographic Image latent root latent virus latent-virus infection later later crudus Later Le dynasty			Late-Onset Reduction of Muscarinic Acetylcholine Receptors Late-Onset Retinal Degeneration Late-Onset Retinal Macular Degeneration Late-Onset Tay-Sachs Foundation LATE-PCR Late-Phase Asthmatic Reaction late-phase hypersensitivity reaction Late-Phase Reaction Late-Phase Skin Reaction late-ripening late-spring-blooming late-star type Late-Successional Reserves late-term late-term Late-term abortion Late-Time Feature Vector Late-type star latebra latebricole LATEC LATECE latecomer latecomers lated lateen Lateen rig Lateen rig Lateen rigged Lateen rigged lateen sail lateen sail lateen sails lateen sails Lateen yard Lateen yard lateen-rig lateen-rigged lateen-rigged lateenrigged lateens lateens lateish Latek Latek Latek lately lately lately LATEM laten Laten We Lets Afspreken Latence latencies latencies latencies

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