consortment

PILGRIM: The U.S. Treasury Department is promoting letters from HOPE NOW, a consortment (ph) of lenders and counselors, those letters being sent to 250,000 homeowners at risk of default, offering help.

CNN Transcript Nov 6, 2007 2007

4 If is also ordeined, that if any one or moe of the said 3. ships shalbe out of sight either before or behinde the Admirall, that then the rest of the ships shall tacke or take off their sailes in such sort as they may meete and come together, in as good order as may be, to the intent to keepe the consortment exactly in all poynts.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

4 If is also ordeined, that if any one or moe of the said 3. ships shalbe out of sight either before or behinde the Admirall, that then the rest of the ships shall tacke or take off their sailes in such sort as they may meete and come together, in as good order as may be, to the intent to keepe the consortment exactly in all poynts.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

Here, then, were people who, after five years 'consortment, -- consciously defiant of time's corrosion, of the guttering-out of desire, of the gross and daily disillusions of a life in common, and even of the daily fret of all trivialities shared and diversely viewed, -- who could yet smile and say: "No, my companion is not quite the perfect being I had imagined.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918