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  • noun Plural form of armado.

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Examples

  • S. O, sir! upon her nose, all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain, who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.

    Act III. Scene II. The Comedy of Errors 1914

  • Oh, sir, upon her nose all o'er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.

    The Comedy of Errors 1592

  • DROMIO: Oh, sir, upon her nose all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.

    The Cartographic Me (Plate I: Legs) | clusterflock 2010

  • Oh, sir, upon her nose all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.

    The Comedy of Errors 2004

  • S. _ Oh, sir, upon her nose, all o’er embellished with rubies, carbuncles, sapphires, declining their rich aspect to the hot breath of Spain; who sent whole armadoes of caracks to be ballast at her nose.

    The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590

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