ghillie
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: gĭlʹē, IPA(key): /ˈɡɪli/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˈɡili/
- Rhymes: -ɪli
- Hyphenation: ghil‧lie
Noun
[edit]ghillie (plural ghillies)
- A low-cut type of shoe with decorative lacing.
- Alternative spelling of gillie.
- 1998, M. C. Beaton [pseudonym; Marion Chesney], chapter 1, in Death of a Scriptwriter (A Hamish Macbeth Mystery), New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN:
- [H]e said, "I hae the day off tomorrow. I'll take ye out on the Anstey if ye want." This met with Patricia's ideas of what was right or fitting. Fishing on a Scottish river with a policeman as ghillie was socially acceptable to her mind.
Translations
[edit]a low-cut type of shoe
Verb
[edit]ghillie (third-person singular simple present ghillies, present participle ghillying, simple past and past participle ghillied)
- Alternative spelling of gillie.
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]Ghillies (dance) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia