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Gaulish, a. (n.)|ˈgɔːlɪʃ|
[f. Gaul n. + -ish.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to the ancient Gauls. Also used (chiefly poet. or humorous) for: French.
1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 1 That Gaulish Hercules [K. Henry IV of France]. 1755Johnson, Galliard (gaillard, French; imagined to be derived from the Gaulish ard, genius, and gay). 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) I. 448 Not only in the old Gaulish language, but also in the Netherlands. 1766Smollett Trav. 246 Carracalla was the name of a Gaulish vestment which this prince affected to wear. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. I. 19 It was a dogma of the Gaulish Druids that the universe was immortal. 1845Graves Rom. Law in Encycl. Metrop. 755/1 The destruction of monuments consequent upon the Gaulish invasion.
B. n. The language of the Gauls.
1668Wilkins Real Char. i. i. §3. 4 The old Gaulish, or British, which is yet preserved in Wales. 1727–51Chambers Cycl. s.v. Romans, A mixture..of half Latin, half Gaulish or Celtic, constituted the Romans [language]. 1893Nation (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 32/3 In Gaulish the word would not be ‘Allobroga’. |