embarkment

[ em-bahrk-muh nt ]

/ ɛmˈbɑrk mənt /

Words nearby embarkment

First recorded in 1590–1600; embark + -ment

And when the time of their embarkment came, there was not sufficient to serue their own turnes.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Volume XIV (of 16)|Richard Hakluyt
Watteau revealed his temperament, on the wing as it were, in his masterpiece "The Embarkment for Cythera."
Watteau|C. Lewis Hind
"The Embarkment for Cythera" has been called the first impressionist picture.
Watteau|C. Lewis Hind
And when the time of their embarkment came, there was not sufficient to serve their own turns.
A Narrative of the expedition of Hernando de Soto into Florida published at Evora in 1557|A Gentleman of Elvas

The main body was assembled at Toulon but the embarkment was to take place at Civita Vecchia.
Military Career of Napoleon the Great|Montgomery B. Gibbs