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English
Noun
galliass (plural galliasses)
- (nautical) Alternative spelling of galleass
1611, Iohn Speed [i.e., John Speed], “Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, ”, in The History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. , London: William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, , →OCLC, book IX ( ), paragraph 210, page 861:[T]he greateſt of their Galliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare of Callis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.