† archipeln.
Etymology: < French archipel, earlier archipelague; see below.
Obsolete.
rare.
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1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes vi. xiii. 242 Diuers goodly Iles in the sea, called Archipell..(marg.) This Archipell is Mare AEgeum.
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