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a kitchen the size of a coffin, somehow feeding hundreds without anyone falling overboard.
means A galley is a long, narrow kitchen aboard a ship or aircraft, or historically a low ship driven by oars and sails.
from From Old French 'galie' and Medieval Latin 'galea,' ultimately from Medieval Greek 'galaia' — the name for those long, oar-powered warships that prowled the Mediterranean. The 'ship's kitchen' sense came later, the cramped cooking quarters borrowing the name of the cramped vessel itself. The printer's 'galley' (a tray holding set type) is a cousin too, named for its resemblance to that long, low shape.
- naval roots
- Named after ancient oared warships, not the food
- printing term
- Galley proofs are draft pages before final layout
- aviation cramped
- Plane galleys serve meals from closet-sized stations
- slave history
- Galley ships were rowed by enslaved oarsmen
hms victory galley — nelson's flagship at trafalgar 1805, still preserved at portsmouth
venetian galley — merchant ships that dominated mediterranean trade from 10th-16th centuries
us prison galley — kitchen on naval vessels and ships where inmates were historically confined