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語源

Probably from Portuguese galeota. Compare English galiot, galley.

名詞

gallivat (plural gallivats)

1. (nautical) A small armed vessel, with sails and oars, used on the Malabar coast.
   • 1724, Captain Charles Johnson, A General History of the Pyrates‎, page 126:

     [They] found them next Morning out of Sight, excepting a Ketch and some few Gallivats, (small sort of Vessels something like the Feluccas of the Mediterranean, and hoists, like them, triangular Sails.)

   • 1812, Alexander Chalmers, The General Biographical Dictionary Volume 18, on Sir William James

     At one time when he had near seventy sail under his protection, he was assailed by a large fleet of Angria’s frigates and gallivats […]

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• galbat, galivat, gallevat, gallowet, gallouet, jalia