Definition of "polacca" [po•lac•ca]

• Alternative form of polacre. (noun)

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• "In questo spot, prodotto presso Acme Filmworks, “la regista polacca Aleksandra Korejwo usando piume caduche di condor, ha manipolato sali colorati su uno sfondo nero posto sotto la telecamera.”"
• "But all that kind of animal is very uninteresting, and I was glad enough to embark on a Genoese polacca which was loading for the Ionian Islands with gunpowder and munitions for Ali de Tebelen."
• "All the airs which the Hebrew maid selected were written by composers of her race; it was either a hymn by Rossini, a polacca by Braham, a delicious romance by Sloman, or a melody by Weber, that, thrilling on the strings of the instrument, wakened a harmony on the fibres of the heart; but she sang no other than the songs of her nation."