词汇 | galatea |
词源 | galatea. Here is a cotton fabric named for a ship. Galatea, of- ten used to make children’s sailor suits in the past, honors H.M.S. Galatea, a mighty British warship of the 1860s. The Galatea, in turn, took her name from the sea nymph Galatea of Greek mythology. |
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