galerus

It is remarkable that galerus, which is Latin for a hat, signifies likewise a dog-fish, as the Greek word kuneae doth the skin of that animal; of which I suppose the hats or helmets of the ancients were composed, as ours at present are of the beaver or rabbit.

The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great Henry Fielding 1730

He's so in shape that you can replace LP Field with the Colosseum in Rome, a galerus for shoulder pads, a galea instead of a helmet and arm the

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~ Alanis galerus Mer - cnrii, Oerfacundiac, volucrcm per aera fcrre fermoncm indicans. —

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm cvm observationibvs antiqvariis geographicis chronologicis historicis criticis et passim cvm explicatione monogrammatvm edidit Io. Christophorvs Rasche 1785

_galerus_, or hood of some kind made of the skin of a victim, and the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884