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galère

/ ɡalɛr /

noun

  1. a group of people having a common interest, esp a coterie of undesirable people
  2. an unpleasant situation
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of galère1

C18: literally: a galley
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Example Sentences

I was forming the habit of trusting to pure luck and vogue la galere!

And what have they or you to do in this galere—I mean garden?'

Que le diable allait il faire dans cette galere muttered his Dublin friends.

I shall ever think on you with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?'

And when he had said it for the tenth time, Moliere's words: "Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?"

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