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gal⋅lo⋅glass

  [gal-oh-glas, -glahs]
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–noun Irish History.
a follower and supporter of or a soldier owing allegiance to an Irish chief.
Also, gallowglass.

Origin:
1505–15; < Ir gallóglách, equiv. to gall a stranger, foreigner + óglach a youth, soldier, servant, deriv. of OIr óac, óc young
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gal·lo·glass or gal·low·glass   (gāl'ō-glās')   
n.  An armed retainer or mercenary in the service of an Irish chieftain.

[Irish Gaelic galloglach : gall, foreigner + oglach, soldier (from óg, from Old Irish óac; see yeu- in Indo-European roots).]
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