argosy
noun
a large merchant ship, especially one with a rich cargo.
argosies
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pluralof argosy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
From Time Magazine Archive
It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
In his brain ran ever that Ossianic tide which has borne so many marvellous argosies through the troubled waters of the modern mind.
From The Divine Adventure Volume IV by Fiona Macleod
