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.]
galleass
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gal·le·ass (găl'ē-ăs', -əs) 
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n. Nautical
A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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