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Irish lord

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noun

  1. any of several marine sculpins of the genus Hemilepidotus, found from Alaska to northern California.


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Her name is Mrs. Rossiter-Browne, and her daughter married an Irish lord who lives near Dublin.

From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

The ill-fated Irish lord had associated himself with an Indian tribe—had committed some offence against their laws—and had been deliberately deserted and left to die.

From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

Among other events which occurred, during the earlier part of that interval, the course adopted by Hugh Mountjoy, when Miss Henley's suspicions of the Irish lord were first communicated to him, claims a foremost place.

From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

Hannah explained that the Brownes were expected that afternoon, and that an Irish lord was coming with them, and that half Ridgeville had gone to the station to meet them.

From Bessie's Fortune A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

Nor was this inconvenience the only trial of endurance to which the Irish lord was compelled to submit.

From Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

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