a sea nymph who was the lover of Acis.
a maiden who had been an ivory statue carved by Pygmalion and brought to life by Aphrodite in response to his prayers.
First recorded in 1880–85; named after the 19th-century British man-of-war H.M.S. Galatea; the fabric was once used for children's sailor suits
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All he has to do is scrawl a wobbly triumph of galatea or et in arcadia ego on a canvas, and suddenly he's up there with Roberto Calasso, if not Edward Gibbon.
From Time Magazine Archive
To escape drowning had been sufficient for their thoughts, and engrossed them for more than an hour after the galatea had gone down.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
To Richard Trevannion the Mundurucú was comparatively a stranger, known only as a tapuyo employed by his uncle in the management of the galatea.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
They could not even frame a guess of the distance traversed by the galatea before she had come to grief in the fork of the sapucaya.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
The steersman, confident of being on the right course, gave himself no further uneasiness; but, once more renewing his hold upon the steering oar, guided the galatea in the middle of the channel.
From Afloat in the Forest A Voyage among the Tree-Tops by Reid, Mayne
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