Connemaran.
/kɒnɪˈmɑːrə/ Used attributively to designate objects, animals, etc., from the Connemara district; esp. Connemara marble, a banded serpentinous marble (cf. Irish green n. at Irish adj. and n. Compounds 3).
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1861 E. C. Gaskell Let. 26 Dec. (1966) 672 We made no great ado about presents this year. Julia a scarlet Connemara Cloak.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 683/1 The Galway rock comes into the market under the name of ‘Irish green’ or ‘Connemara marble’.
1896 G. B. Shaw in Sat. Rev. 1 Feb. 122/1 Every female one [is] a colleen in a crimson Connemara cloak.
1916 W. B. Yeats Eight Poems Gray Connemara cloth.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 313 Wine, peltries, Connemara marble.
1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Isles (ed. 2) 107 Connemara Sucker (Lepadogaster decandolii).
1950 Oxf. Junior Encycl. IX. 289/1 The Connemara pony, which is 13–14 hands high and is frequently grey, comes from Connaught.
1965 ‘N. Blake’ Private Wound v. 72 My tall Connemara tweed hat had flown off my head.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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