Flota

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 23:42:20

Flo"ta (?), n. [Sp. See Flotilla.]

A fleet; especially, a fleet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.

 

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