Galloway
Americannoun
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a historic region in SW Scotland.
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one of a Scottish breed of beef cattle having a coat of curly, black hair.
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one of a Scottish breed of small, strong horses.
noun
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an area of SW Scotland, on the Solway Firth: consists of the former counties of Kirkcudbright and Wigtown, now part of Dumfries and Galloway; in the west is a large peninsula, the Rhinns of Galloway, with the Mull of Galloway, a promontory, at the south end of it (the southernmost point of Scotland)
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a breed of hardy beef cattle, usually black, originally bred in Galloway
Example Sentences
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“Yes, it’s a kind of performance,” Galloway says.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2026
Threave, Dumfries and Galloway recorded Scotland's highest temperature of 29.7C, while the highest temperature in Northern Ireland peaked at 27.4C in Killowen, Co.
From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026
Stephen Galloway, dean of Chapman University’s film school, said the attention the movie has drawn since Musk’s post speaks to how incendiary some of its themes are.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Run by Dumfries and Galloway Council, Youth Beatz is billed as the largest free youth music event in Scotland.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
In the view of Ramenofsky and Patricia Galloway, an anthropologist at the University of Texas, the source of contagion was very likely not De Soto’s army but its ambulatory meat locker: his three hundred pigs.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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