Crossword-Solution: TARTANA 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 7

From Italian tartana, Arabic taridha; a similar word being used in Valencia and Grand Canary for a two-wheeled open cart.

They were taking the French despatches into Valencia, and offered Hopie and me seats in their _tartana_--a covered cart not on springs, which is the cab of the country.

The house of La Masane had been put to sack--partly by those who had come to take away the more portable furniture for the _tartana_ bound for Les Santes Maries, and also in part at a later date by the retainers of the Lord of Collioure.

But I do not choose to beg for testimonials to my generosity; and perhaps I have not told the whole truth about it in the chapter already written upon my own character.[22] It was in the year 1757 then that I composed the little book in verse which I have mentioned, closely following the style of good old Tuscan masters, and giving it the title of _La Tartana degl'influssi per l'anno bisestile 1757_.[23] This little work contained a gay critique in abstract on the uses and abuses of the times.

Meanwhile, the famous Signor Lami, who at that time wrote the literary paper of Florence, thought my _Tartana_ worthy of notice in his journal, and extracted some of its stanzas on the decadence and corruption of the language.