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Gallego, Gallego|gælˈjeɪgəʊ| Also Galego, Gallejo. [Sp.] = Galician n.1 (In quots. 1600, a Galician ship.)
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 631 We had before lost sight of a smal Galego on the coast of Spaine. Ibid. 633 An old Galego which I caused to be fashioned like a galley. 1656Blount Glossogr., Gallego (Spa.), a man of Galitia. 1811J. Carr Descr. Trav. Spain 50 The Gallejos (pronounced Gallegos) or Galicians are a remarkably fine athletic race of men. 1828[see Galician a.1 and n.1]. 1846Thackeray Cornhill to Cairo i. 6 A little..boat, rowed by three ragged gallegos. 1925Chambers's Jrnl. 10 Oct. 705/1 The Gallegos are for the most part miserably poor. 1957P. Kemp Mine were of Trouble v. 85 General Franco is a gallego (Galician), with all the obstinacy and subtlety of that race. |