单词 | celtic fringe |
释义 | > as lemmasCeltic fringe Celtic fringe n. the Celtic areas of Britain and Ireland (see sense A. 4a), when regarded as peripheral to, and to some extent distinct from, the rest of the British Isles; the population of these areas, esp. considered in contradistinction to that of England; (also occasionally) the Celtic-speaking territory and peoples that lived along the western edges of the Roman Empire; cf. fringe n. 2b.Sometimes with depreciative overtones, esp. in early use. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Celtic people > [noun] Celtdom1841 Celtic fringe1885 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > [noun] > land of the Gaels Gaeldom1860 Celtic fringe1885 Gaeltacht1910 1885 Times 16 May 11/2 It will be admitted that in the declining days of this Parliament..the affairs of the ‘Celtic fringe’ of the United Kingdom have had their full share of notice. 1899 A. H. Keane Man Past & Pres. xiv. 523 What has been called the ‘Keltic fringe’, that is, the strips of territory on the skirts of the Teutonic and Neo-Latin domains in the extreme west—Brittany, Wales, parts of Ireland, the Scotch Highlands and the Isle of Man. 1910 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Aug. 341/2 Dr. Maclean..belonged, like himself, to the Celtic fringe, without which the English were but an egg without salt. 1992 M. J. Green in G. Price Celtic Connection 27 By the Roman period, only a ‘Celtic fringe’ remained unromanized and, to a large extent, unconquered. 2000 Holiday & Leisure Spring 7/1 Plymouth is the gateway into Cornwall..and, as part of the Celtic fringe, in many ways considers itself as almost a separate country! < as lemmas |
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