caïque

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Noun
  • Reese Witherspoon and her boyfriend, Oliver Haarmann, were photographed this week enjoying a vacation on a yacht in St. Tropez, France.
    Janelle Ash, FOXNews.com, 20 July 2025
  • In July 2023, the pair spent time with the late Liam Payne and his girlfriend Kate Cassidy on a luxury yacht in Saint-Tropez.
    Colson Thayer, People.com, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • In September 2021, the frigate HMS Richmond—deployed to the western Pacific with an aircraft carrier group—transited the waterway en route to Vietnam after operating in the East China Sea.
    Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
  • There are about 3,600 bunkers on Sazan, armored cement mushrooms emerging from the vegetation or perched on mountaintops like lookouts against phantom American aircraft carriers or Soviet frigates.
    Marzio Mian, The Dial, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The 200 square miles of surrounding coral reefs proved rough for mariners, but divers now reap the benefits with some 300 shipwrecks to explore, from the 192-foot American schooner Constellation that sank during World War II to the Mary Celestia, a Civil War era paddle-wheeler.
    Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 22 May 2025
  • The Californian is a 41 year-old wooden topsail schooner that was built as a replica of the 1847 Revenue Cutter C.W. Lawrence.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2025
Noun
  • One of the survivors was Henry Percy, aide de camp to Wellington, who after the Battle had to row halfway across the Channel with the news of the Duke’s victory, as an absence of wind had halted his sloop.
    Mike O'Sullivan, Forbes.com, 4 July 2025
  • After an encounter with a whale-like dino, their sloop capsizes.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 30 June 2025
Noun
  • After the travel party’s homemade catamaran flipped, leaving the group to drift in the ocean for over 24 hours, Rockefeller strapped empty gasoline cans to his waist and swam for help.
    Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025
  • The firm’s bet on the high-tech, high-speed world of foiling catamarans signals growing investor confidence in SailGP’s model, a centralized league shifting rapidly to private franchise ownership.
    Asli Pelit, New York Times, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • On December 4, 1872, sailors aboard the Canadian brigantine Dei Gratia spotted a ship named the Mary Celeste in the distance.
    Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Moreland, who has more than 30 years experience sailing topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques, as well as five world voyages under his belt, said the Picton Castle will be hosting a range of school groups on the vessel.
    Jennifer Larino, NOLA.com, 6 Mar. 2018
Noun
  • In nearby Bonavista village, the Matthew Legacy is a full-sized replica of the caravel that Cabot sailed across the Atlantic on the fateful voyage.
    JOE YOGERST, Forbes.com, 1 July 2025
  • The name, man o’ war, is derived from the animal’s resemblance to the Portuguese sailing warship, the caravel or man of war, in full sail.
    GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 23 June 2025
Noun
  • Produced and delivered to her a year later, the original Birkin features several elements that set it apart from the ones that followed, including its nail clippers, bottom studs, gilded brass hardware and nonremovable strap.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 11 July 2025
  • Soon Booker would take his father's clippers and begin trimming his own hair.
    Mykal McEldowney, IndyStar, 2 July 2025
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“Caïque.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/ca%C3%AFque. Accessed 26 Jul. 2025.

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