gally

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And Fleur, though le gally victorious, is less commanding in London society than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Excuse me,” I says to him, “but wasn’t you talkin’ to a young lady just now? and if it ain’t too gally, can I in-quire who she is?”

From Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher by Gates, Eleanor

The galley or gally is also the name of the ship's hearth or kitchen, being the place where the grates are put up and the victuals cooked.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Pd for a gally slabs seate for yeparson 00 01 00 1623.

From Highways and Byways in Surrey by Thomson, Hugh

When the auxiliaries gwîl and gally are used to form a passive, it is sometimes the auxiliary that takes the passive form. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Jenner, Henry