Definition of Ghillies

1. Noun. (British Ireland) (plural of ghillie) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ghillies

1. ghillie [n] - See also: ghillie

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghillies

ghettoizations
ghettoize
ghettoized
ghettoizes
ghettoizing
ghettos
ghey
ghi
ghibli
ghiblis
ghilgai
ghilgais
ghillie
ghillie suit
ghillied
ghillies (current term)
ghis
ghit
ghits
ghoast
ghole
gholes
ghost
ghost-town
ghost at the feast
ghost band
ghost bands
ghost car
ghost cars
ghost cell

Literary usage of Ghillies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethics of Citizenship by John MacCunn (1896)
"And again, from the same point of view, it would have been more than tenfold better, had all the effort, expended through the long autumn days by ghillies ..."

2. An Editor's Retrospect: Fifty Years of Newspaper Work by Charles Alfred Cooper (1896)
"The coffee-room of the hotel at Tongue looked out upon the main road, and it was the custom for the ghillies to muster under the windows to await their ..."

3. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1896)
"The sentence beginning at " It was resolved " (this is that the cows should be tested with another salmon, the ghillies having declared that the cattle had ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"On the 7th June we visited Carn-nan-Sgeir, where, as our ghillies informed us, ... Our ghillies concluded that the Terns had been compelled by ruthless ..."

5. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1902)
"On the 7th June we visited Carn-nan-Sgeir, where, as our ghillies informed us, the Terns nested in considerable numbers. On our way thither we landed on ..."

6. From Conflict to Negotiation: Nature-Based Development on South Africa's by Robin Palmer, Hermann Timmermans, Derick Fay (2002)
"... when the only acceptable encounter with local residents was in their roles as cooks, cleaners, ghillies, and so on. We acknowledge, of course, ..."

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