English

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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish قالیونجی (someone associated with galleon ships) (modern Turkish kalyoncu).[1][2]

Noun

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galiongee (plural galiongees)

  1. (historical) A Turkish sailor. [from 19th c.]

References

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  1. ^ "galiongee." Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged. Merriam-Webster. 2002.
  2. ^ Kahane, Henry R., Kahane, Renée, Tietze, Andreas (1958) The Lingua Franca in the Levant: Turkish Nautical Terms of Italian and Greek Origin, Urbana: University of Illinois, § 317