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galley-foist, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English ...
The earliest known use of the noun galley-foist is in the late 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for galley-foist is from 1589, in a translation ...
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Galley-foist - Oxford Reference
galley-foist or gally-foist ... A small square-rigged ship that served as an escort for the new lord mayor of London when he was carried ... Access to the ...
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Fusta - Wikipedia
The fusta or fuste (also called foist) was a narrow, light and fast ship with shallow draft, powered by both oars and sail—in essence a small galley.
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galley-foist
galley-foist Obs. exc. Hist. [f. galley n. + foist n.1] A state barge, esp. that of the Lord Mayor of London.1589 Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 66 Carried..about his grounds in painted gallefoistes. 1609 B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. ii, When the Gally-foist is a-floate to Westminster! 1616 Beaum. & Fl. Scornf...
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[PDF] Galley-foists, Lord Mayors' Shows, and Early Modern English Drama
My purpose in this paper is to identify the problem, to explain and provide evidence for the true nature of the galley-foist in the sixteenth and seventeenth ...
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[PDF] Galley-foists, the Lord Mayor's Show, and Early Modern English ...
6 The galley-foist was a different vessel altogether: an elaborately decorated ship-rigged foist, galley, pinnace, or brigantine (ie, a sailing vessel, though ...
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Galley Foist (Grose 1811 Dictionary) - Words from Old Books
A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster. Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, ...
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Galley Foist - 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue - Pangyre
Galley Foist: A city barge, used formerly on the lord mayor's day, when he was sworn in at Westminster. « Galley | Gallied » ...
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View of Galley-foists, the Lord Mayor's Show, and Early Modern ...
What is a 'galley-foist'? According toOED, it is 'a state barge, esp. that ofthe Lord Mayor of London'. This definition appears to be wrong however ...
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Galley-foists, Lord Mayors' Shows, and Early Modern English Drama
This paper argues that the OED's mistaken definition of a 'galley-foist' as 'a stage barge, esp. that of the lord mayor of London' has ...
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galley
▪ I. galley, n. (ˈgælɪ) Forms: 4–6 galai, -ay(e, (4 gaylay, 6 ghallai, 7 gallay), gale(e, -ei(e, -ey(e, 5–6 galy(e, (5 gaili), 6–8 gally(e, (6 gallie), 4– galley. [ad. OF. galie, galee, med.L. galea, galeia, late Gr. γαλαία, γαλέα = Pr. galeya, galea, Sp. galea (obs.), Pg. galé, It. galea, galia. Th...
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List of English words of Dutch origin
now bos or bosje in the same sense, since it seems to appear first in former Dutch colonies
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Caboose from kambuis or kombuis (="ship's kitchen", "galley flibustier ultimately from Dutch vrijbuiter (="pirate" or "freebooter")
Flag from vlag
Flushing, Queens from Vlissingen, a city in the Netherlands
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