flotillan.
/flə(ʊ)ˈtɪlə/, U.S. /floʊˈtɪlə/, /fləˈtɪlə/ A small fleet; a fleet of boats or small vessels.
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flotilla1711
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > small vessel > a number of in company
flotilla1711
1711 London Gaz. No. 4890/1 The Flotilla..was sail'd.
1739 Let. in Descr. Windward Passage (ed. 2) 3 They commonly dispatch a few Ships into Europe, who..carry an Account of what is on Board the Galleons and Flota. The Ships are stiled the Flotilla.
1801 P. Somerville in A. Duncan Nelson (1806) 198 The enemy's flotilla in the bay of Boulogne.
1826 H. N. Coleridge Six Months W. Indies 125 A flotilla of fishing or passage boats.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vi. iii. 31 Sailing..in silken flotillas gayer than Cleopatra's, down the Elbe.
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