Crossword clues for pratique
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pratique \Prat"ique\, n. [F.; cf. It. pratica, Sp. practica. See Practice.]
(Com.) Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, a certificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations, permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term used particularly in the south of Europe.
Practice; habits. [Obs.] ``One of English education and pratique.''
--R. North.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Permission to use a port given to a ship after compliance with a quarantine or on conviction that she is free of contagious disease. 2 (context obsolete English) practice; habits
Wikipedia
Pratique is the license given to a ship to enter port on assurance from the captain to convince the authorities that she is free from contagious disease. The clearance granted is commonly referred to as Free Pratique. A ship can signal a request for "Pratique" by flying a solid yellow square-shaped flag. This yellow flag is the Q flag in the set of International maritime signal flags.
Since flying the Q flag involves a request for boarding by Port State Control, it has also become an invitation to Customs to inspect a vessel for dutiable goods or contraband, as in the "Rich Harvest" case.
Usage examples of "pratique".
Barincq, de suivre cette voie pratique que je vous ouvrais, dit Sauval, que celle qui vous a mene dans le bagne ou vous vous debattez?
It is not pratique, that But then, alas, poor Leo was not pratique in such matters I only hope my son has become sensible where he was sensitive, the boy who went to France would die of shame at the very thought of the whole business.
So pratique, they think themselves, setting up their lives over a chessboard, as though they were pieces upon that board!
That morning, one of the finest young surgeons at LE-COLE Pratique de Wouldecine had been reported missing.
Well, the golden boy of LE-COLE Pratique de Medecine had finally gotten a bad break.
HISTOIRE DE SAINT ADJUTOR Descendant des compagnons de Rollon, fils du duc Jean et de la duchesse Rosamonde de Blaru, if fut eleve par saint Bernard, abbe de Tiron, dans les pratiques les plus exactes de la religion chretienne.
Then there was the question of pratique: after the fifteen covenanted guns had boomed to and fro across Chaves Bay, a man from the captain of the port came out in a handsome galley, and on hearing that the squadron was last from the Slave Coast he looked grave and said that since there had been an outbreak of the plague in Whydah three years ago they would have to perform quarantine before anyone could be allowed on shore.