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- adjective nautical, of a ship with all or some of her cannons removed.
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Borrowed from French en flûte; the empty ports on the hull of the ship look like the holes in a flute.
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hernesheir commented on the word en flute
(adj.) Naval term during Napoleonic and Revolutionary wars denoting a warship sailing without some, or any, of its cannons.
June 27, 2009