regatta ri-ˈgä-tə , -ˈga- noun
: a series of boat races
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The word regatta has appeared in 21 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year, including on Oct. 24 in “No Wind. No Problem. The Sailing Race Must Go On” by Jason Horowitz:
TRIESTE, Italy — The Bora wind blows so fiercely through Trieste, a melancholic port town on the Adriatic Sea, that some sidewalks are lined with handrails. The wind maddens pedestrians, but it also fills the sails of skippers who come from all over to compete in Italy’s aquatic equivalent of the New York City Marathon.
… Last year, the 50th anniversary of the Barcolana, as the race is called, included 2,689 boats with 16,000 sailors, making it the largest regatta in the world by some counts. Mr. Faraguna and his friends finished in 15th-to-last place.
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