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argosy

[ahr-guh-see] / ˈɑr gə si /


NOUN
flotilla
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As happens to the ship which is too heavily freighted with even the best cargo, our argosy capsized.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Kobler's new "argosy of dreams" is the New York Daily Mirror.

From Time Magazine Archive

With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.

From Time Magazine Archive

Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blue and gold on the summer sea,    Each little mast with a sail of pearl,   Each dipping boat holds a boy or girl,   A most enchanting argosy.

From The Tale of Lal A Fantasy by Paton, Raymond

For years now, those "argosies of magic sails" have been gliding in and out of airports as if flight were as natural to man as walking.

From Time Magazine Archive

It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .

From Time Magazine Archive

Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

Those who conspired at the Mermaid Tavern to send brave argosies of wit trafficking on a bluer sea than ever sailed Drake's galleons were playwrights to a man.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Ransome, Arthur




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