galley-foistn.
Obsolete exc. Historical.figurative.a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) i. i. 8 Sayle this way thou gally-ffoyst off galls and garbadge.attributive.1612 T. Dekker Troia-Noua Triumphans 581 Their thunder (according to the old Gally-foyst-fashion) was too lowd for any of the Nine Muses to be bidden to it.
A state barge, esp. that of the Lord Mayor of London.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessel of specific construction or shape > flat-bottomed boat > [noun] > barge > large ornamented or state
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1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Georgiks iv. 66 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Carried..about his grounds in painted gallefoistes.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne iv. ii, in Wks. I. 570 When the Gally-foist is a-floate to Westminster! View more context for this quotation
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie i. sig. C2 Captaines of Gallifoists, such as in a cleare day haue seene Callis.
c1640 Capt. Underwit i, in A. H. Bullen Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1883) II. 324 No Lord Maiors day, no gulls nor gallifoists.
1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xvi Such Epistolæ obscurorum Virorum should meddle with the Gally-foists of my Lord Mayor's Show, and not first Rate Ships.
1785 in F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
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