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‖ Shanavest Irish.|ˈʃænəvɛst|
Also erron. Shanavat.
[According to Dr. P. W. Joyce, f. Irish sean old + vest n. (The opposing faction were called caravats = ‘cravats’.)]
pl. The name of one of the fighting factions into which the peasantry of the South of Ireland were formerly divided.
1811J. Jebb in C. Forster Corr. betw. J. & Knox (1834) II. 41 The Archbishop..promises to insure you against caravats, shanavests, and all such marauders. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIV. 518 Whiteboys, Shanavats,..and Captain Rock. 1862Borrow Wales c. III. 380 My father..was the best fighting man with a stick that the Shanavests ever had. |