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
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
Through the plain, brick-pointed door opposite famed Fortnum & Mason, movers wrestled a seemingly inexhaustible argosy of odd treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
From the deck of the 'War Sprite' Raleigh had the mortification of seeing the smoke of this priceless argosy go up to heaven.
From Raleigh by Lang, Andrew
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
It opens up vistas of salvaging sunken Spanish argosies with their almost legendary treasures.
From Time Magazine Archive
Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails .
From Time Magazine Archive
Milo’s argosies of plenty now filled the air.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
Their palm-thatched villages fringed its beaches and the blue harbors sheltered many sail which sallied forth to play havoc with the precious argosies of the English, French, and Dutch East India Companies.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Paine, Ralph Delahaye
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