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regatta
/ɹɪˈɡɑtə/
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What does regatta mean?
noun
- A series of boat races, or sometimes a single race.
- A striped cotton fabric.
- A group of swans on the water.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈɡɑtə/
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They worked as desperately as if they were contesting in a Royal yacht regatta.
Count Bennigsen, being a landowner in the Vílna province, offered his country house for the fete, and the thirteenth of June was fixed for a ball, dinner, regatta, and fireworks at Zakret, Count Bennigsen’s country seat.
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The river in the neighbourhood of Canton is so covered with junks, sampans, and other craft, that, in comparison to it, the Thames at Henley during regatta week would look like a deserted waste of water.
There were social events which enlivened the camp of the harvesters; such as maidens’ feasts, dances and a canoe regatta or two, in which not only the men were participants, but women and young girls as well.
We could not, in all conscience, have picked out a better day for our regatta had we had the free choice of all the days that ever dawned upon the lonely struggles and solitary agonies of ships since the Norse rovers first steered to the westward against the run of Atlantic waves.