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galley-foist Obs. exc. Hist.
[f. galley n. + foist n.1]
A state barge, esp. that of the Lord Mayor of London.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iv. 66 Carried..about his grounds in painted gallefoistes. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. iv. ii, When the Gally-foist is a-floate to Westminster! 1616Beaum. & Fl. Scornf. Lady i. ii, Captains of Gally-foists, such as in a clear day have seen Callis. c1640[Shirley] Capt. Underwit i. in Bullen O. Pl. II. 324 No Lord Maiors day, no gulls nor gallifoists. 1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. xvi, Such Epistolæ obscurorum Virorum should meddle with the Gally-foists of my Lord Mayor's Show, and not first Rate Ships. 1785in Grose Dict. Vulg. Tongue. 1867in Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.
fig.1624Heywood Captives i. in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Sayle this way thoue galley foyst of galls and garbadge!
attrib.1612Dekker Lond. Triumph. Wks. 1873 III. 257 Their thunder (according to the old gally-foyst fashion), was too lowd for any of the Nine Muses to be bidden to it. |