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gal⋅le⋅ass

  [gal-ee-as]
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–noun Nautical.
a fighting galley, lateen-rigged on three masts, used in the Mediterranean Sea from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Origin:
1535–45; < OF galleasse, galiace < OIt galeaza (Venice), aug. of galea galley
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gal·le·ass   (gāl'ē-ās', -əs)   
n.   Nautical
A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.

[French galeasse, from Old French, from Old Italian galeaza, augmentative of galea, galley, from Old Provençal or Catalan; see galley.]
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