flotilla
/fləˈtɪlə
/noun
A small fleet of ships or boats: a flotilla of cargo boats...
- The Quays welcomed two Galway Hooker sailing boats and a flotilla of sailing vessels were docked at Albert Basin.
- The almost constant vision of a flotilla of ships and boats on Sydney Harbour, shown ad nauseam on Foxtel today, proves that point.
- I finished my tour on the opposite side of Punda from the fort, where a flotilla of sailing boats was moored up on a small waterway off the main harbour.
Origin
Early 18th century: from Spanish, diminutive of flota 'fleet'.
Rhymes
- Age of Aquarius
- age of consent
- age of discretion
- age of innocence
- age of reason
- age-old
- ageometrical
- ageostrophic
- age-proof
- age range
- agerasia
- ageratum
- age-related
- age-related allowance
- age-related macular degeneration
- age-restricted
- age set
- age-specific
- age spot
- ageusia
- ageusic
- ageustia
- Agew
- age-weary
- age-weighted