embarcation

American  

[em-bahr-key-shuhn] / ˌɛm bɑrˈkeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. embarkation.

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Other Word Forms

• reembarcation noun

Example Sentences

This week the volunteers were packing up for embarcation at Buenaventura.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea pleased the Marquise; but who would undertake to discover the fugitive and arrange for her embarcation?

From The House of the Combrays by Le Notre, G., [pseud.]

After the capture of Madrid by Napoleon, Sir J. Moore retreated before Soult and Ney to Corunna, and was killed whilst covering the embarcation of his troops.

From The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language by Palgrave, Francis Turner

Among the despatches brought by the auditor is a decree ordering, the embarcation for India and Luçoens of all Castilians, both religious and secular, so that only the original Portuguese citizens shall remain in Machao.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by Robertson, James Alexander

The salary commencing from the hour of embarcation.

From Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society by Darlow, Thomas Herbert