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Definition of Ghillie
1. Noun. A shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep.
Definition of Ghillie
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of gillie) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ghillie
1. a type of shoe [n -S] - See also: shoe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghillie
Literary usage of Ghillie
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northumberland, and the Border by Walter White (1859)
"... for ever—ghillie Callum—Running and Leaping—Grand Steeple Chase— Departure.
A BRIGHT blue sky enlivened by great floating islands of snow-white cloud, ..."
2. A Season in Sutherland by John Edwards Edwards-Moss (1888)
"The fish floundering badly, but still a yard to the good ; the ghillie floundering
far ... This lets the ghillie up. One more dive with the clip—this time a ..."
3. An Editor's Retrospect: Fifty Years of Newspaper Work by Charles Alfred Cooper (1896)
"I have heard that subsequently, when acting as ghillie to Mr. William Black, he
injured himself and was lamed for life. His name is mentioned here because ..."
4. Racing Life of Lord George Cavendish Bentinck, M. P. and Other Reminiscences by John Kent, Francis Charles Lawley (1892)
"Certainly the Nigger got closer to Voltigeur than he ever could get to ghillie
Callum when the last two were fit. It was a great disappointment to us all, ..."
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