| 单词 | 'erseman |
| 释义 | > as lemmas'Erseman 'Erseman n. now rare a Gaelic-speaking inhabitant of Scotland, esp. one from the Hebrides and Highlands of Scotland; (in later use also) a Gaelic-speaking inhabitant of Ireland.Now chiefly only in historical contexts. [Compare earlier Irishman n.] ΚΠ a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 203 Com to Ynglond so many Erischmen. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 152 Be he the correnoch had done schout Erschemen so gadderit him abowt, In hell grit rowme thay tuke. 1861 G. W. Dasent tr. Story Burnt Njal II. 340 Soon over all Ersemen [Icel. Írar] Sharp sorrow shall fall, That woe to those warriors Shall wane nevermore. 1898 N. Munro John Splendid xix. 187 The few houses that lay in the melancholy plain were on no particularly friendly terms with this convocation of Erse-men and wild kerns. 1900 Scotch-Irish in Amer. 184 From the days of DeCorcy and onward the defeated Ersemen in Antrim would fly to their more congenial neighbors found in the glens. 1999 J. Whyte Fort at River's Bend 66 Suppose we drive these Ersemen off, convinced they cannot take this place from the sea. < as lemmas |
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