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armada (n.)
"fleet of warships," 1530s (erroneously, as
armado
), from Spanish
armada
"an armed force," from Medieval Latin
armata
(see
army
). Especially of the "Invincible Armada" of Philip II of Spain (1588). Current form of the word is from 1590s.