Lexicographical Neighbors of Caillachs
Literary usage of Caillachs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Friendship's Offering, and Winter's Wreath.: And Winter's Wreath: a by Thomas Kibble Hervey, Leitch Ritchie (1852)
"... old Allister from this weary world, there'll no he wanting something to hury
him decently, and to gie a dram to the caillachs that cry his coronach. ..."
2. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"some cat with her kittens playing near two nice old wives— " caillachs," the
Gaelic folk would say—who sit spinning in the corner. ..."
3. In the Hebrides by Constance Frederica Gordon Cumming (1883)
"some cat with her kittens playing near two nice old wives— " caillachs," the
Gaelic folk would say—who sit spinning in the corner. They are very deaf, ..."
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