Gallegon.
/ɡalˈjeɪɡəʊ/ = Galician n.1 (In quots. 15961, 15962: a Galician ship.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > vessel from specific town or province
Florentine1591
Gallego1596
Lubecker1627
Flushinger1689
Newfoundlander1744
Londoner1765
novy1897
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > the Spaniards > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Spain > parts of
Catalan1480
Gallego1596
Gadite1607
Andalusian1612
Asturian1612
Galician1749
Valencian1769
Castilian1779
Manchego1779
Catalonian1781
Aragonese1823
Manchegan1846
Leonese1865
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 1 We had before lost sight of a small Gallego on the coast of Spayne.
1596 W. Raleigh Discoverie Guiana (new ed.) 8 An old Gallego which I caused to be fashioned like a galley.
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Gallego (Spa.), a man of Galitia.
1811 J. Carr Descriptive Trav. Spain & Balearic Isles 50 The Gallejos (pronounced Gallegos) or Galicians are a remarkably fine athletic race of men.
a1832 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XIX. 438/1 The Galicians, or Galegos as the Spaniards call them, are a grave and sober people.
1846 W. M. Thackeray Notes Journey Cornhill to Cairo i. 6 A little..boat, rowed by three ragged gallegos.
1925 Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Oct. 705/1 The Gallegos are for the most part miserably poor.
1957 P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble v. 85 General Franco is a gallego (Galician), with all the obstinacy and subtlety of that race.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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