Gallovidian
Britishnoun
adjective
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"Macmillan tired of this crude style of propulsion, and after long and anxious thought he successfully devised a plan to get rid of it," reported James Johnston of the Glasgow Cycling Club in the Gallovidian magazine of 1899.
From BBC
Gallovidian, gal-o-vid′yan, adj. belonging to Galloway.—n. a native thereof.
From Project Gutenberg
As this Gallovidian gentleman was taking the air on horseback, near his own house, he was suddenly accosted by a little old man, arrayed in green, and mounted upon a white palfrey.
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The other instances in which my Gallovidian readers have obliged me by assigning to Airy nothing A local habitation and a name, shall also be sanctioned so far as the Author may be entitled to do so.
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Such an anecdote is mentioned by the late Mr. Riddel of Glenriddel, in his collection of Border tunes, respecting an air called the 'Dandling of the Bairns,' for which a certain Gallovidian laird is said to have evinced this strong mark of partiality.
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