galleass

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But like most, if not all, compromise types, the galleass was short-lived.

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  1. noun Nautical A large, fast, heavily armed three-masted Mediterranean galley of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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  1. French galeasse, from Old French, from Old Italian galeaza, augmentative of galea, galley, from Old Provençal or Catalan; see galley.
 

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