Etymology

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Italian ragusea
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  1. Italian · derived fromragusea“a large ship”
  2. English todayargosy

Alteration of Italian ragusea (“a large ship”), after the maritime city of Ragusa, now Dubrovnik.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.