embarkment

Historical Examples

• "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 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 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

• 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