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galleon

[gal-ee-uhn, gal-yuhn] / ˈgæl i ən, ˈgæl jən /




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She was checking people in on the pier for a separate boat tour to Sazan on a replica galleon that advertises the opportunity to “be a pirate for a day.”

From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026

A wooden galleon of Espiritu Santo's size would have required 800 trees that could now only be found in the forests of Myanmar, said Quezon.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Sunk in 1708, the galleon San José attained legendary status.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 30, 2026

In 1708 the San José, a treasure-laden Spanish galleon, sunk off the coast of Colombia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025

Our ship is a galleon, weathered from a million voyages going back to ages even darker than this.

From "Challenger Deep" by Neal Shusterman

The Spanish, who had at first just flitted along the coast in their galleons, had begun marching inland and overland from Mexico with crosses and soldiers and soldiers’ families.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 2, 2026

Early in the process, Quezon, a historian and grandson of a former Philippine president, learned to his dismay that the local hardwood and water-resistant species used to build the galleons had long been wiped out.

From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026

Look at the massive Seville cityscape here, by an unknown painter from around 1660, in which men of lighter and darker skin tones gossip and gallivant on the riverbank as galleons sail by.

From New York Times ● Apr. 7, 2023

It is not like corporations deploy an armada of 17th century galleons to sail shipments of gold across the ocean.

From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2021

Or sometimes we’d pre-tend we were the Dutch going out on raids against Spanish galleons.

From "The Cay" by Theodore Taylor




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