Definition of "dromond" []

• Nautical A large medieval sailing galley. (noun)

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• "The two queens (if I may call them so, of whom one had been and one hoped to be of that estate), Joan and Berengère, went in a great ship which they call a dromond, a heavy-timbered ship carrying a crowd of sail."
• "Craft danced on its blueness, everything from bumboats shaped like basins to a freighter under sail and a naval dromond with oars in parade-ground step."
• "And Foam Dancer is a small ship, not a dromond loaded to the gunnels with ivory and spices."