• galeas,galliass

1540s, fromOld Frenchgalleasse, fromItaliangaleaza ‘large galley’, fromLatingalea.

• IPA^(key):/ˈɡæli.æs/

galleass (pluralgalleasses)

1. (nautical,historical) A type ofrowablevessel of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to agalley but larger, and normally equipped withsails.
   • 1599,[Thomas] Nashe,Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London:[…] [Thomas Judson andValentine Simmes] forN[icholas] L[ing] andC[uthbert] B[urby] […],→OCLC,page 5:

     The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincibleSpanish Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips andgaleaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K.Edgar, who is chronicled& regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.

   • 1611, Iohn Speed [i.e.,John Speed], “Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, […]”, inThe History of Great Britaine under the Conquests of yͤ Romans, Saxons, Danes and Normans. […], London:[…] William Hall and John Beale, for John Sudbury and George Humble, […],→OCLC, book IX ([Englands Monarchs] […]), paragraph 210,page861:

     [T]he greateſt of theirGalliaſſes fell foule vpon another ſhip, and loſt her Rudder, ſo that guideleſſe ſhe droue vvith the tide vpon a ſhelue in the ſhoare ofCallis, vvhere ſhee vvas aſſaulted by the Engliſh.