Round 3015 - GALATEA - The Defs

[Christopher Carson]

With crossed fingers that I picked up all of the outstanding defs and got them into this list, here is the posting only 9 hours late or so. 

 

There are a total of 12 definitions for GALATEA. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before deadline, which is 7:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 .

 

1. A style of walking skirt worn during the Gay Nineties

    (1890–1900).

2. A genus of great water lilies.

3. A room for informal dining.

4. Broadcloth used for blue and white sailor-suits for

    children.

5. A North African smock-like garment.

6. Tithes of corn, hay, and wood.

7. A minor Greek deity associated with justice and harmony

    and the handmaiden of Astraea.

8. A group or council of churches.

9. A durable, often striped cotton fabric used in making

    clothing.

10. A type of cinnamon pastry (after the mythic _Galatea_

    q.v.)

11. A midsummer festival celebrated on some Greek islands.

12. A rough cloth, made from hemp, ivory-white in color.

 

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[Judy Madnick]

See? I read'em all!

 
1. A style of walking skirt worn during the Gay Nineties (1890–1900).
 

12. A rough cloth, made from hemp, ivory-white in color.

 

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

[Tim B]

7 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Shani Naylor]

I'm thinking cloth - 4 & 9.

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[nancygoat]

Sorry for the late notice.  I am a DQ on this one.

Nancy

[Daniel B Widdis]

10 and 12 please

 

[Dave Cunningham]

4 and 12 as I … um, you know, bearing gifts.

Dave

[France International/Mike Shefler]

A lot of these are, ahem, cut from the same cloth, so to say. I'll choose 4 and 9 as being the most reasonable.

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[Debbie]

2 and 3 for me, against the grain.

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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 1 and 4.

On 9/22/2019 4:24 PM, Christopher Carson wrote:

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[Efrem G Mallach]

1 and 10, please.

Efrem

On Sep 22, 2019, at 4:24 PM, Christopher Carson <clca...@live.com> wrote:

With crossed fingers that I picked up all of the outstanding defs and got them into this list, here is the posting only 9 hours late or so. 
 
There are a total of 12 definitions for GALATEA. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before deadline, which is 7:00 AM EDT on Tuesday, September 24, 2019 .
 

1. A style of walking skirt worn during the Gay Nineties (1890–1900).

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try the tithes and one of the cloths: 6 and 12.

 6. Tithes of corn, hay, and wood.

12. A rough cloth, made from hemp, ivory-white in color.

--  Tim L

[Ryan McGill]

Of those without votes, I find 8 & 11 most convincing. (Sorry, Discordian one.)

8. A group or council of churches.

11. A midsummer festival celebrated on some Greek islands.

[Tony Abell]

I'll take 8 and 9 for no real reasons: