A large Italian boat or barge, historically used for transporting goods on rivers and coastal waters.
From Italian barcone, augmentative form of barca (boat), derived from Late Latin barca, which may have Iberian origins. The suffix -one indicates a large version of the root noun.
Medieval and Renaissance Italy relied on these sturdy vessels to move wine, grain, and marble through Venice's lagoons and the Tiber River—they're basically the 16th-century equivalent of cargo trucks, but floating!
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