guarda costa

noun

A Spanish vessel used to protect the coast.

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Meanings

nounguarda costa (plural guarda costas)

plural guarda costas

  1. historicalnauticalA Spanish vessel used to protect the coast.

    […] I vvas attacked by one of thoſe curſed Guarda-Coſtas, vvho took our Ships before the Beginning of the VVar; […]

    1742, Henry Fielding, “A Dialogue between Mr. Abraham Adams and His Host, […]”, in The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrews, and of His Friend Mr. Abraham Adams. […], volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book II, page 301
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    While we were employed in this manner, our vessel went northward to Black River to trade. While she was there, a Spanish guarda costa met with and took her.

    1789, Olaudah Equiano, chapter 11, in The Interesting Narrative, volume I
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