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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

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

It is, of course, tempting to suggest that Aron was the original Keltic name of Great End; but in Wales the name Aran is generally applied to mountains of very different appearance to Great End.

From Climbing in The British Isles. Vol. 1 - England by W. P. Haskett Smith

There is in her a sort of cosmic choler restrained by a Keltic pride that is ready to pretend a world made up of rates and taxes and the 9.2 train to London Bridge.

From A Novelist on Novels by Walter Lionel George

The early Keltic poets were forbidden to bear arms: a reminiscence of their sacerdotal status, but they, too, looked on while others fought, and encouraged the combatants with their songs.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco

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