Definition of Galaea
Galatea, a nymph whom Polyphemus made love to, but who preferred
Acis to him, whom therefore he made away with by crushing him under a
rock, in consequence of which the nymph threw herself into the sea.
- Wikipedia
Gal`a*te"a (?), n. [After
Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for
children's sailor suits.] A kind of striped cotton fabric,
usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on
white.
Gal`a*te"a (?), n. [After
Galatea, a British man-of-war, the material being used for
children's sailor suits.] A kind of striped cotton fabric,
usually of superior quality and striped with blue or red on
white.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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