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argosy

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Definition:
1. A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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2. a fleet of small ships, either war or merchant; a flotilla
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Milo's argosies of plenty now filled the air. Planes poured in from Norway, Denmark, France, Germany, Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria, Sweden, finland, Poland - from everywhere in Europe, in fact [...].

Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.254 (1961)
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