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Keltic

  • a variation of Celtic.
    Celtic
    noun
    a branch of the Indo-European family of languages, including especially Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh, and Breton, which survive now in Ireland, the Scottish Highlands, Wales, and Brittany. Celt, Celt.
  • a word derived from Kelt.
    kelt
    noun
    a salmon that has spawned.
  • a word derived from Kelt.
    kelt
    noun
    a salmon that has spawned.

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Serious peaks were reached by Baritone Emilio de Gogorza who sang a Gluck aria and by Mrs. Edward MacDowell, pianist-widow of the late great composer, who played the Andante from her husband's Keltic Sonata.

From Time Magazine Archive

We have chosen the designation Keltic, because the burning question concerning the Basques at present is their relation to the Keltic race.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

That these legends do in some degree resemble the Keltic ones will, we think, be denied by no one.

From Basque Legends With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

In Keltic we are not told the kind of wood from which the Druidic switch was taken.

From Creation Myths of Primitive America In relation to the Religious History and Mental Development of Mankind by Jeremiah Curtin

First they sang of Norman thieves--turbulent barons who, troublesome at home, were despatched to get rid of superfluous energy at the expense of Keltic princes.

From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield

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