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The child of Imelda Marcos and Dr. Seuss would collect mukluks, galoshes and gillies and high-tops, and also some moccasins, chukkas and flip-flops.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017

George VI rolled out of Balmoral Castle to startle Aberdeenshire gillies with his new "shooting brake," a luxurious caterpillar-wheeled contraption with sliding win dows, special gun racks, facilities for serving lunch to ten guests.

From Time Magazine Archive

Knowing how dangerous mumps can be to a full grown male, Her Majesty ordered all mumpsful Scottish gillies tucked promptly into bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tenants, servants, and "gillies" on the Balmoral, Agergeldie and Birknall estates were bidden by their Britannic Majesties to a ball.

From Time Magazine Archive

The miller spoke to his gillies, and he said to them to do this, and they put them in four sacks.

From Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales by Various