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flotilla

[ floh-til-uh ]

noun

  1. a group of small naval vessels, especially a naval unit containing two or more squadrons.
  2. a group moving together:

    The governor was followed by a whole flotilla of reporters.



flotilla

/ fləˈtɪlə /

noun

  1. a small fleet or a fleet of small vessels


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Word History and Origins

Origin of flotilla1

1705–15; < Spanish, diminutive of flota fleet < French flotte < Old English flota

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Word History and Origins

Origin of flotilla1

C18: from Spanish flota fleet, from French flotte , ultimately from Old Norse floti

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Example Sentences

They were perched atop our five-boat flotilla and I cried like a baby.

The pendant light is a flotilla of hot air balloons hand blown in glass.

But I was oddly pleased when I heard that 500 people were treated for hypothermia after the flotilla.

The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh will travel in the Royal Barge which will form the centrepiece of the flotilla.

The two countries are facing a major diplomatic rupture over a report on the Gaza flotilla raid, and neither side is backing down.

Here the river turned abruptly northwest, and in the bay formed by its curve lay a flotilla of log rafts.

I must confess, however, that the French appeared to me equally mad, in expecting any thing from their flotilla.

I demanded of this veteran, pointing to the flotilla, when the Emperor intended to invade England?

Amidst such scenery the expeditionary flotilla began its voyage at eleven o'clock.

With a gentle breeze off shore the flotilla started in nearly the order assigned to it.

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