cailleach
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of cailleach
Gaelic
Example Sentences
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And you wouldn't have me write them now and tell them I'm only an old cailleach in a cabin on the mountain-side, and my eyes, that they'll remember, are dull like marbles....
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
Amn't I the stupid old cailleach, my dear, to be talking of such a thing?
From Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure by Neil Munro
And while the feast was fresh in people’s memory, they affected to speak of the cailleach beal-tine as dead.”
From The Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer
Down on her knees went the old cailleach.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
Sure, 't was the kindly daughter you were to me, and me old and not worth my salt, a broken cailleach hobbling on a stick.
From The Wind Bloweth by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
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