gallowglass
Meaning of gallowglass
noun
(in Ireland) a mercenary or member of a special class of soldiers in the service of a chieftain.
late 15th century: from Irish gallóglach, from gall ‘foreigner’ and óglach ‘youth, servant, warrior’.
Information about gallowglass
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of gallowglass
gal-low-glass
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- gallowglass is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
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