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plural barques
A sailing vessel of three or more masts, with all masts but the sternmost square-rigged, the sternmost being fore-and-aft-rigged quotations examples
On being told, however, that the Norwegian barque Daphne was about to leave An-peng for Tamsui, I had my things taken on board, and we set sail a few hours later.
1873 (published 1889, 1996), William Campbell, An Account of Missionary Success in the Island of Formosa, SMC Publishing Inc., page 279
(archaic) Any small sailing vessel.
(poetic) A sailing vessel or boat of any kind. quotations examples
Barque of phosphorOn the palmy beach…
1922 (first published 1923-09-07), Wallace Stevens, Fabliau of Florida, from collection Harmonium