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Definition of Gombeens
1. gombeen [n] - See also: gombeen
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gombeens
Literary usage of Gombeens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. "New Views on Ireland" , Or Irish Land: Grievances, Remedies by Charles Russell Russell of Killowen (1880)
"The people had so much experience of the hardships and horrors experienced by
their neighbours at the hands of ' gombeens,' or small land speculators, ..."
2. English and Irish Land Questions: Collected Essays by George Shaw-Lefevre Eversley (1881)
"200 or ^300 in trade, and by lending money at usurious rate ; ' gombeens ' we
call them in the west: in every townland there is a man we call a ..."
3. Birth and Adoption: A Book of Prose and Poetry by Patrick O'Brien (1904)
"... the coastguards and gombeens Must seek some other quarters, for here they
cannot stay, For they must leave old Ireland, and that without delay. ..."
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