archipelago
/ˌɑɹkəˈpɛləˌɡoʊ/ noun C1- A sea or other body of water with many islands.
- A group of many islands.
- A thing comprising many other scattered things. · the Gulag Archipelago
- A cross-game modification system that randomizes in-game abilities and items scattered across multiple and different modded games
Plural archipelagoes
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The count purchased an island in the Tuscan archipelago, and, as he told you today, has founded a commandery.
Rare birds, retaining their most brilliant plumage, enormous fish, spread upon massive silver dishes, together with every wine produced in the Archipelago, Asia Minor, or the Cape, sparkling in bottles, whose grotesque shape seemed to give an additional flavor to the draught,—all these, like one of the displays with which Apicius of old gratified his guests, passed in review before the eyes of the astonished Parisians, who understood that it was possible to expend a thousand louis upon a dinner for ten persons, but only on the condition of eating pearls, like Cleopatra, or drinking refined gold, like Lorenzo de’ Medici.
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