Also 7 tartain. [a. Fr. tartane (1632 in Hatz.-Darm.), a. It., = Sp., Pg. tartana, supposed by Diez to be derived from Arab. tarīdah: see TARETTE. But connecting evidence is wanting.] A small one-masted vessel with a large lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean; = TARTANA1.
1621. Admiralty Crt. Eram., No. 43. 24 Aug. A small vessel called a tartain flotinge and driveinge to and fro in the sea.
1666. Lond. Gaz., No. 77/2. A small Tartane arrived here two daies since from Provence.
1697. Dampier, Voy. round World (1699), 30. Captain Wright … had taken a Spanish Tartan, wherein were 30 men, all well armed.
1756–7. trans. Keysler’s Trav. (1760), IV. 119. A Turkish tartane, with red colours, emblazoned with three crescents, &c. was performing quarantine.
1805. Wilkes, in Mem., II. 171. I could not go in a small tartan without some one friend.
1896. Vizetelly, Zola’s Rome, 295. The few tartanes which brought wine from Sicily, never came higher than the Aventine.
