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Almadie   Listen
noun
Almadie, Almadia  n.  (Naut.)
(a)
A bark canoe used by the Africans.
(b)
A boat used at Calicut, in India, about eighty feet long, and six or seven broad.






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"Almadie" Quotes from Famous Books



... negroes came out upon them again in greater force, "most of them sooty black in colour, dressed in white cotton, with something like a German helmet on their heads, with two wings on either side and a feather in the middle. A Moor stood in the bow of each Almadia, holding a round leather shield and encouraging his men in their thirteen canoes to fight and to row up boldly to the caravels. Now their oars were larger than ours and in number they seemed past counting." After a short breathing space, ...
— Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. • C. Raymond Beazley



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