flotilla

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small fleet of warships (usually of the same class), or a fleet of small ships.

   Toward the horizon a flotilla of fishing-boats showed immutable, pink-lacquered by the evening sun.

2. 2
   noun

   A small group of things or people

   After a few moments Chloe saw Rosamund walking towards them with a small flotilla of shopping bags.

From Spanish flotilla, diminutive of flota (“fleet”), from French flotte.

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