
Flotilla
WordNet
noun
(1) A fleet of small craft
(2) A United States Navy fleet consisting of two or more squadrons of small warships
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Quotations
- 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 102
- Toward the horizon a fotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.