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A Moorish princess. Her father, King Gadalfe of Tole’do, built for her a palace on the Tagus so splendid that the phrase “a palace of Galiana” became proverbial in Spain.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.