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
Boll is “touching on an issue that matters, and one that’s at the forefront of global politics, particularly in Europe and the United States—as alarming as his approach is,” said Galloway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
Dumfries and Galloway Council said it had received a "small number of complaints" which it was taking seriously.
From BBC ● Jul. 3, 2026
It was first held in 2009 and currently receives £179,000 in annual funding from Dumfries and Galloway Council.
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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