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‖ cailleach|ˈkal(j)əx|
In Scott cailliach.
[Gaelic cailleach old woman, orig. ‘nun’, f. caille pallium, veil.]
An old (Highland) woman, a crone.
1814Scott Wav. I. xviii. 280 Some cailliachs (that is, old women) that were about Donald's hand. 1828― F.M. Perth III. 121 Think you the Clan Quhele have no cailliachs, as active as old Dorothy. |