a large, three-masted vessel having sails and oars and carrying heavy guns: used in the Mediterranean in the 16th and 17th cent.
Origin of galleass
French galéasse from Old French galeace from Italian galeazza from ML: see galleygalleass
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galleass
also gal·li·ass
noun
NauticalA large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 1500s and 1600s.
Origin of galleass
Old French galeasse from Old Italian galeaza augmentative of galea galley from Old Provençal or Catalan; see galley .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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