galatean.

1874 Le Follet May Among the fashionable materials in vogue for morning or afternoon wear, we noticed the following names:..toile d'Oxford (known in England as ‘Galatea twills’), with its variety of beautifully coloured stripes.

1894 Athenæum 17 Nov. 669/1 During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic war our seamen wore trousers of striped stuff resembling ‘galatea’.

1920 S. Lewis Main St. iv. 36 In the shallow dark window-space heaps of sleazy sateens, badly woven galateas.

1937 E. Hill Great Austral. Loneliness 246 I get the blacks' rations, a little tea, sugar and flour from the Government every week, with a gin's frock of blue galatea..once a year.

1955 E. Ostick Draper's Encycl. 47 Galatea is a coloured, striped drill of cotton, all the warp yarns being coloured. Red and blue are the usual colours, though mauve, brown and black are sometimes seen. The cloth is similar to denim but lighter in weight. It is used for children's playsuits and nurses' uniforms.