Gāl'i-mā'tias, n.

(-mā'sha), n. [Fr. galimatias, — so called because a French lawyer, who pleaded, in Latin, before a court, the cause of a certain Matthias, from whom a cock had been stolen, often changed the words gallus Matthiae, the cock of Matthew, into galli Matthias, the Matthew of the cock.] Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confused mixture.

Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries. H. Walpole.