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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

Accompanied by his wife Muriel, more than 50 reporters, staffers and Secret Service men and an argosy of silver bowls, spoons and forks to bestow on his hosts, Humphrey deplaned first at Geneva.

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

“How much of this sort of stuff is there?” said Maseden, his imagination running riot as to the possible history of this unrecorded argosy.

From His Unknown Wife by Tracy, Louis