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单词 galleon
释义
galleongal‧le‧on /ˈɡæliən/ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINgalleon
Origin:
1500-1600 Old Spanish galeón, from Old French galie; GALLEY
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Galleons, I believe ... yes, galleons in full sail ... on the hanging bits.
  • A bus sailed by like a ghostly galleon.
  • Bad weather accounted for most of the losses thirty galleons lost in 250 years.
  • Granny was a galleon in the queue of our boys, glowing and clucking.
  • Spine like the mast on a galleon.
  • The great wooden chalet creaked and resonated like a galleon in full sail.
  • Then the vessels were full-sized galleons, carefully prepared for the trip which usually took six months.
  • Was Sylvian still out there, floating with the galleons and flotsam?
word sets
WORD SETS
age, nounallied, adjectivebarbarian, nounbaroque, adjectivebarrow, nounbattlements, nounbestiary, nounbiography, nounBlack Death, the, bloodletting, nounchivalry, nouncircus, nounclassical, adjectivecolony, nounconquistador, noundolmen, noundominion, noundoublet, noundragoon, nounducking stool, noundunce's cap, nounEdwardian, adjectiveElizabethan, adjectiveepoch, nounera, nounfeudalism, nounforum, noungalleon, noungalley, noungenealogy, noungladiator, nounGraeco-, prefixGrecian, adjectiveGreco-, prefixHellene, nounHellenic, adjectiveherald, nounhighwayman, nounhistorian, nounhistoric, adjectivehistorical, adjectiveIce Age, nounindustrial archaeology, nounIndustrial Revolution, the, nouninterwar, adjectiveIron Curtain, the, Jacobite, nounlocal history, nounlord, nounmedieval, adjectiveMoorish, adjectiveNorman, adjectiveNorse, adjectivepage, nounpageant, nounpaladin, nounpalimpsest, nounpapyrus, nounparchment, nounpatrician, adjectivepennon, nounperiod piece, nounprehistoric, adjectiveprehistory, nounquarterstaff, nounredcoat, nounreeve, nounRegency, adjectiveRomano-, prefixromanticism, nountime capsule, nounTudor, adjectiveVictorian, adjectiveVictorian, nounWhig, nounzeitgeist, noun
a sailing ship used mainly by the Spanish from the 15th to the 17th century
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