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Definition of Galahs
1. galah [n] - See also: galah
Lexicographical Neighbors of Galahs
Literary usage of Galahs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"127: "The galahs, with their delicate grey and rose-pink plumage ... "A shrieking
flock of galahs, on their final flight before they settled to roost, ..."
2. Thirty Years in Tropical Australia by Gilbert White (1918)
"... unbroken by one mark or tree, and the stars begin to shine out above the
crimson and green of sunset, and the galahs whirl up in a great cloud, ..."
3. How the Present Came from the Past by Margaret Elizabeth Wells (1917)
"Among the many tribes there, too numerous to mention, were the rose-and-gray
painted galahs and the brilliant ..."
4. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil: Drawn from Pen and Pencil by Howard Willoughby (1886)
"There would be noise and tumult a little later, as the crested galahs came cackling
homeward to rest, and then the long and solemn hush of night, ..."
5. New South Wales and Victoria in 1885 by Douglas Montague Gane (1886)
"The common price asked for a young white cockatoo is 5s.; for a pair of love-birds,
Is. 6d. or 2s. Rosella, or more properly rosehill parrakeets, galahs, ..."
6. The Australian Contingent: A History of the Patriotic Movement in New South by Frank Hutchinson, Francis Myers (1885)
"... by the flocks of screaming galahs. There was a little trouble with the multitude,
but no cause for strong repressive measures. ..."
7. A Gazetteer of Southern India: With the Tenasserim Provinces and Singapore by Pharoah and Co, Charles Walker, John Walker (1855)
"It has three calin- galahs for letting off the surplus water in floods, at the
south end. Near one of them is a double lock for the passage of boats; ..."
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