1663 N. Boteler War Practically Perform'd 20 As for the defects of the Gola of a Bulwork, they are not to be reformed and made wider.

1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. i. ii. 11 In a Cornice, if the Gola [Fr. la doucine], or Cymatium of the Corona; the Coping, the Modilions, or Dentelli make a noble shew by their graceful projectures;..it is most certain, that this manner will appear solemn and great.

1728 R. Morris Ess. Anc. Archit. 51 Cymatium, or, as some call it, Gola.

1771 G. Marshall tr. A. B. Desgodets Anc. Buildings Rome II. xxiii. 52 He puts also under the gola of the top of the cornice a fillet which is not there.

1840 P. A. Nuttall Classifical & Archæol. Dict. 347/2 The parts [of the Doric order] consist of the base, the dado,..the corona, the gola reversa, and the gola recta.

1904 Monist 14 164 Two oblong quadrilateral pedestals decorated with magnificent Etruscan gola.

1992 Archit. Hist. 35 58 A variant, not dissimilar to the gola on the Temple of Minerva, was the large ovolo moulding carved with egg and dart which took the place of modillions in the cornice of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in Rome.

1670 J. Ogilby tr. O. Dapper Naukeurige Beschrijvinge in Africa 381 On the Borders of Hondo and Manot, beyond the fore-mention'd great Wood, dwell the right Galas.

1856 J. L. Wilson Western Afr. i. ii. 96 The country of the Golas lies to the east of Monrovia, and at the distance of a hundred miles or more from the sea-coast.

1906 H. H. Johnston Liberia I. vii. 88 Dapper's ‘Gala’ are evidently the Gora of to-day and the ‘Golahs’ of..the last century.

1962 Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 96 515 The Mende..look upon the..Gola to the south as incompetent and inferior agriculturalists.

2013 B. Everill Abolition & Empire in Sierra Leone & Liberia ii. iv. 103 The slavers were mostly Dei and Gola, either acting on their own, or cooperating with Pedro Blanco and his factor.

1906 H. H. Johnston Liberia II. xxxii. 1139 Gora is spoken in Western Liberia, along the east and west banks of the Lower St. Paul's River.

1990 L. P. Monts Annotated Gloss. Vai Musical Lang. 36 The names for some parts..are the same in Vai, Mende, and Gola.

2016 in J.-M. Iyi Humanitarian Intervention & AU-ECOWAS Intervention Treaties iii. 92 I could speak Gola, so I told them I was Gola. If I had told them I was Mandingo, they would have killed me.

1843 Afr. Repository & Colonial Jrnl. June 171 We found ourselves opposite ‘Gobby’, a Golah town, situated on a small island in the St. Paul's river.

1870 B. Anderson Narr. Journey to Musardu 33 A near relation of the King's..was a Golah man.

1962 Jrnl. Afr. Hist. 3 34 Public truths..represent ultimate or ideal values in the Gola conception of themselves as social beings with a noble heritage and a vital future.

1990 Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere Sept. 21 We may consider the Gola noun phrase to be a clause constituent containing a noun in the sense defined above.

2009 Washington Post (Nexis) 23 Aug. a1 The new University of Liberia Alumni Chorus sang ‘Kah Beneh Kah’, another song that von Ballmoos had arranged, sung in the Gola dialect.