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Definition of Ghillies
1. ghillie [n] - See also: ghillie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghillies
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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