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Argosy

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    Popular anglicism of the Argonautika of Apollonios Rhodios.

    "Roger chuckled. "I hope you don't think I'm a mere highbrow," he said. "As a customer said to me once, without meaning to be funny, `I like both the Iliad and the Argosy.' The only thing I can't stand is literature that is unfairly and intentionally flavoured with vanilla. Confectionery soon disgusts the palate, whether you find it in Marcus Aurelius or Doctor Crane."

Noun
  1. 1
    A merchant ship.
  2. 2
    one or more large merchant ships wordnet
  3. 3
    A merchant flotilla, fleet.

    "Gremio, 'tis known my father hath no less Than three great argosies, besides two galliasses, And twelve tight galleys; these I will assure her, And twice as much, whate'er thou offer'st next."

  4. 4
    An abundant supply, boatload.

    "The wreck was total—as total as that ever is which trusts its all to one argosy."

Etymology

Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.

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