galerie (ga-lri), n.f., gallery, lobby, corridor; (fig.) spectators, lookers on, company; (nav.) stern gallery, balcony; passage; (mec.) foot-board; (mining) level, drift, creep-hole; (thea.) gallery; (furniture) beading, rim; (for curtains) cornice. Petite —; (arch.) heading. — principale; (arch.) body-range (of vaults); (mining) foot-board. — d’allongement; (mining) main level. — d’écoulement; (engineering) drainage, drain-gallery; (mining) adit; offtake; drift; thirl. — du faux pont; (nav.) gangway. — en saillie; (arch.) bartizan. Faire —; to look on (at balls); to be a wall-flower. — de tableaux; picture-gallery.
galérien (-ri-in), n.m., galley-slave, convict.
galerne, n.f., (nav.) northwesterly wind.
galet, n.m., shuffle-board; pebble, shingle; shingly beach; gravel; (locksmith’s work) roller.
galetas (gal-tâ), n.m., garret, attic; hole, hovel.
galette, n.f., broad thin cake; sea-biscuit. Plat comme une —; flat as a pancake.
galeu-x, -se, adj., itchy; scabby; mangy; scurfy (of plants, trees). Chien —; mangy dog. Brebis —se; scabby sheep. Arbre —; scurfy tree. Qui se sent — se gratte; (prov.) if the cap fits, wear it.
galeu-x, n.m., -se, n.f., mangy fellow.
galhauban, n.m., (nav.) back-stay. Rides de —s; laniards of the back-stays. —s volants; preventer back-stays.
galimafrée, n.f., (cook.) hotch-potch, hash, mishmash.