argosy
Americannoun
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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
Etymology
Origin of argosy
1570–80; earlier ragusy < Italian ( nave ) ragusea (ship) of Ragusa
Example Sentences
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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
Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
With this statement I climb down the pilot's ladder to an argosy of dreams.
From Time Magazine Archive
I see the indifferent pass before my friend’s last resting-place; pause, with a shrug of pity, marvelling that so rich an argosy had sunk.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume 9 by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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