avisos
- plural of aviso.
Example Sentences
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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.
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
