OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 36266

flotilla

/floʊˈtɪlə/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
flotilla
A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.
Driven from their home system by the geth nearly three centuries ago, most quarians now live aboard the Migrant Fleet, a flotilla of fifty thousand vessels ranging in size from pas…
Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.
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