argosy
Americannoun
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argosies
plural
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a large merchant ship, especially one with a rich cargo.
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a fleet of such ships.
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an opulent supply.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of argosy
1570–80; earlier ragusy < Italian ( nave ) ragusea (ship) of Ragusa
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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
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
For an hour they ran on gaily, with little or no trouble, because the men could see broken water a long way ahead and promptly piloted their argosy towards the open channel.
From His Unknown Wife by Louis Tracy
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
Our river bears upon its bosom many argosies freighted with the merchandise of every clime.
From The Emigrant's Lost Son or, Life Alone in the Forest by Anonymous
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