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argosy

noun as in fleet

noun as in flotilla

Strongest matches

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He has adopted a ready-made: the sinless version of Shostakovich peddled by “Testimony,” supplemented by the most lurid tales from Ms. Wilson’s argosy and a published letter or two.

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Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.

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Tripolis, Mexico, England, Lisbon, Barbary, India, “where his argosies with portly sail,” “the pageants of the sea.”

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Their visions of South American argosies melted into thin air.

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If we have inherited a great commerce and dominion of science it is because their argosies had been on the ocean, and their camels on the desert.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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