galloglass
/ˈɡalə(ʊ)ɡlɑːs
/(also gallowglass)
noun historical
(In Ireland) a mercenary or member of a special class of soldiers in the service of a chieftain.Like early gallowglasses, they were supporting Mael Sechnaill, king of Tara, against the Scandinavians of Dublin and his Irish rivals....
- Composition involved, in Gaelic parts, the commutation of the chief's right to take up supplies for his household and quarter his kerne and galloglass on his subjects for defence.
- Dermot O'Conor Don, a valiant man, had, with a body of 1,500 kerns and gallowglasses, entered his service.
Origin
Late 15th century: from Irish gallóglach, from gall 'foreigner' and óglach 'youth, servant, warrior'.
- south temperate
- South Triangle
- Southumbrian
- southward
- southwardly
- southwards
- south-west
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- southwester
- south-westerly
- south-western
- southwesterner
- south-westernmost
- south-westward
- southwestwardly
- south-westwards
- south wind
- South Yorkshire
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- souvenir
- souvenir hunter
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- sou'wester
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