galley
galley Lexical Profile
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• noun
The kitchen or food preparation area on a ship, aircraft, or train.
"The flight attendants began preparing the beverage service in the forward galley of the airplane."
A low, flat ship with one or more sails and up to three banks of oars, primarily used for warfare, trade, and piracy in the Mediterranean Sea from antiquity to the early modern period.
"The ancient Romans built a massive fleet of galleys to challenge Carthaginian dominance in the Mediterranean."
An oblong metal tray used by printers to hold set type before it is divided into pages, or an early unformatted proof printed from such type.
"The author received the galley from the publisher to make final corrections before the book went to press."
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Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English 'galeye', from Old French 'galee', ultimately from Late Latin 'galea' (a type of Mediterranean ship) and Byzantine Greek 'galea'.
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