aviso
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Origin of aviso
1625–35; < Spanish, noun derivative of avisar to advise
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The question arises, was it a rendezvous? and did the "bark of aviso" bear other and more important despatches than those addressed to Master Ralph Lane?
I have letter by an aviso from Cartagena, dated the 14th of September, wherein they advise that the galleons were ready laden with the silver, and would depart thence the 6th of October.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
M. Foucault is fond of this scene, and will therefore not take it ill if I recall to his mind a couple of stanzas: Essere in omnibus Consultationibus Ancieni aviso, Aut bono, Aut mauvaiso.
From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Flammarion, Camille
The shipping-agent yields assent; inserts a second aviso in the Spanish paper, addressed to marineros of all nations.
From The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea by Reid, Mayne
If he came, he would come with admiral, rear-admiral, and vice-admiral, transports, and avisos, according to the best-approved methods, articles, and science of war.
From Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth by Kingsley, Charles
Whereunto is added avisos from several places, of the taking of the Island of Providence, by the Spaniards from the English.
From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry
It has a navy of two corvettes, six avisos, or despatch vessels, sixteen gunboats, with 2,000 sailors and marines.
From Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics by Shute, A. B.
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