galère

/ French (ɡalɛr) /

noun

a group of people having a common interest, esp a coterie of undesirable people
an unpleasant situation

Origin of galère

C18: literally: a galley

Words Nearby galère

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How to use galère in a sentence

I was forming the habit of trusting to pure luck and vogue la galere!
The Firefly Of France | Marion Polk Angellotti
And what have they or you to do in this galere—I mean garden?'
The Wouldbegoods | E. Nesbit
Que le diable allait il faire dans cette galere muttered his Dublin friends.
Speeches from the Dock, Part I | Various
I shall ever think on you with gratitude, and the worst of my censure shall be, Que diable alloit-il faire dans cette galere?'
Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete | Sir Walter Scott
And when he had said it for the tenth time, Moliere's words: "Mais que diable allait-il faire dans cette galere?"
War and Peace | Leo Tolstoy

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