Barque
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A sailing vessel with at least two of its foreward-most masts square-rigged and at least one of its aftermost masts fore-and-aft rigged. The typical barque is a three masted vessel, with square-sails only on the fore- and main-masts, effectively a ship with no mizzen top- or topgallant-sail. There have been barques of four and five and even more masts, some with only the aftermost mast fore-and-aft rigged, some with only the foreward two masts square-rigged. If a three-or-most masted vessel has square sails only on its foremast, it is properly a barquentine.
