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Galorʹe (2 syl., g hard)

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A sailor’s term, meaning “in abundance.” (Irish, go leor, in abundance.)

For his Poll he had trinkets and gold galore,

Besides of prize-money quite a store.”


 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Gallicum Merleburgæ
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Gallimaufry
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Gallo-Belgicus
Galloon
Galloway (g hard)
Gallowglass
Gallus Numidicus (A)
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