Meaning argosy
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argosy1570s, from Italian (nave) Ragusea "(vessel) of Ragusa," maritime city on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic (modern Dubrovnik in Croatia). Their large merchant ships brought rich Eastern g [..]
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argosya large merchant ship
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argosy a vessel of Ragusa in Sicily: hence a ship of large size (Merchant of Venice, 1.1).
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argosy(n) one or more large merchant ships
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argosyA merchant ship. A corruption of “ragusea.” Ships of the largest size were built at Ragusa in Dalmatia and Venice.
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argosyLarge Adriatic merchant ship of middle ages. Word is used, poetically, for freight-carrying ships in general. Is a corrupt form of Ragusa
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argosyan extremely large ship or fleet of ships, especially merchant ships. (archaic)
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argosyoriginally a vessel of Ragusa or Ragosa, a Ragosine; hence any ship of burden
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