Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An armed retainer or mercenary who serves an Irish chieftain.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
gallowglass .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I knew that his galloglass, Scott Egan, is a reader as he has posted before.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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Malin Head to Cape Clear all Ireland was in a wild buzz of excitement, and every fighting kern and galloglass clutched his pike with a sense of coming triumph.
The Story of Ireland Emily Lawless 1879
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_galloglass_, or heavily armed foot soldier, called
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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_galloglass_, or heavily armed foot soldier, called
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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` soothsayer, 'galloglass, Irish and Gaelic galloglach ` foreign youth,' which took on the meaning of ` soldier, 'glen from Irish and Gaelic gleann, earlier glenn ` mountain-valley,' kern from Old Irish ceitern ` band of foot-soldiers, 'leprechaun from Irish lupracan ` sprite,' loch from Irish loch
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