Noun: flote
| Singular | flote |
| Plural | flotes |
Sample Sentences
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Ar. […]and for the reſt o'th' Fleet
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(Which I diſpers'd) they all haue met againe,
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And are vpon the Mediterranean Flote
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Bound ſadly home for Naples,
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Suppoſing that they ſaw the Kings ſhip wrackt,
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And his great perſon periſh. [1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 4:]
Nouns inflected like flote
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Compare French flot, Latin fluctus; also compare float (noun). See: French Nouns '
flot', Latin Nouns '
fluctus'.