Definition of "barque" [barque]

• Variant of bark3. (noun)

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• "Its prettiness helps explain its survival in boxes and cupboards for more than half a century, its original tuition (example: how to tell a barque from a brigantine) long forgotten."
• "The other three turned to see what it was that had so disturbed their comrade, and then they, too, were struck dumb with consternation; for, standing at the door of the companion-hatch -- the barque was a flush-decked vessel -- was the mandarin whom they had left for dead."
• "Now it chanced that among the cargo carried by the barque was a small launch intended for the use of a plantation owner in South America."