ar|go|sy

ar|go|sy «AHR guh see», noun, plural -sies. Historical or Poetic.

1. a large merchant ship: »

Venetian merchants with deep-laden argosies (Longfellow).

2. a fleet of such ships.

╂[< Italian Ragusea (ship) of Ragusa, an Italian port which traded extensively with England in the 1500's]