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‖ caramoussal, carmousal Obs.
Also caramousal, -musall, -mosil; carmasal, carmizale, carmusol.
[In It. ‘caramusáli, a kind of ship in Ormuz, caramusalino, a kind of pinnace or bark’ (Florio), caramussále, a Turkish merchantman (Baretti), Sp. caramuzal ‘transport vessel used by the Moors’ (Velasquez), F. carmoussal ‘a kind of Turkish ship’ (Cotgr.), 16th c. L. caramussallus, Turkish qarāmusāl a kind of ship (Meninski 1680, Zenker 1866). (Kara-mussal is also the name of a place in the Gulf of Nicomedia near the Bosphorus.)]
A Turkish and Moorish ship of burden, noted in the 17th c.
Thos. Hyde Notes on Peritsot's Trav. (1691) says (p. 81) ‘navis cujus prora ac puppis sunt elevatiora quam media pars’: cf. the description of the old Caravel.
[1565Hieron. Comes Alexandrinus Comment. de bello in insulam Melitam (in Du Cange, and Jal) Tria navigia quæ vulgo appellant Caramussalos; minora sunt autem onerariis navibus, et figura prope ovali.] 1587Saunders Voy. Tripoli in Hakluyt Voy. II. 187, I and sixe more..were sent forth in a Galeot to take a Greekish Carmosell. 1603Knolles Hist. Turkes (1621) 1329 There were two gallies, a caramoussal, and a Greeke brigandine. 1615G. Sandys Trav. (1670) 20 Turkish Carmasals and Gallies. 1628Digby Voy. Medit. (1868) 33, I made her for a carmizale. 1651Howell Venice 195 Som Gallies and Caramusalls that carried passengers upon a Pilgrimage to Mecha. 1656Blount Glossogr., Carmasal, carmusol. 1668Wilkins Real Char. ii. xi. 280 Galeot, Caramosil, Carrack, Caravel. 1696Phillips, Carmousal, a Turkish ship with a very high poop. 1721–1800Bailey, Caramousel, and Carmousal. |