Red Branch
Americanplural noun
Example Sentences
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Not so, ye Knights of the Red Branch; it is not meet to commit a base deed in order to escape evils that may never come to pass.
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
Then the king said:—"Go now to the Red Branch and bring me back tidings of Deirdre and of the sons of Usna."
From Old Celtic Romances by Unknown
And his chief storyteller, Felimid, made a feast for the king and for the knights of the Red Branch; who all came to partake of it in his house.
From A Reading Book in Irish History by Joyce, P. W.
"I only of the Red Branch hosted now," Cuchulain cried, "have made and keep that vow."
From Poems by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Few believe that such an institution as the Red Branch Knights ever existed.
From Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland by Russell, T. O.
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