1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
ARGOSY (a corruption, by transposition of letters, of the name of the seaport Ragusa), the term originally for a carrack or merchant ship from Ragusa and other Adriatic ports, now used poetically of any vessel carrying rich merchandise. In English writings of the i6th century the seaport named is variously spelt Ragusa, Aragouse or Aragosa, and ships coming thence were named Ragusyes, Arguzes and Argosies; the last form surviving and passing into literature. The incorrect derivation from Jason's ship, the " Argo," …
- Source status
- OCR text aligned to scanned pages
- Pages
- Vol. 2, pp. 482-482