| 单词 | irish traveller |
| 释义 | > as lemmasIrish Traveller Irish Traveller n. (also with lower-case initial in the second element) a member of Ireland's traditionally itinerant Traveller community (see traveller n. 2b(a)).In early use not a fixed collocation, and perhaps showing use of traveller n. 2a, referring to Irish people with an itinerant way of life more generally.Irish Travellers are now recognized in both Ireland and the United Kingdom as a distinct ethnic group with its own language: cf. Shelta n. ΚΠ 1763 Gentleman's Mag. Sept. 461/2 The widow of a gentleman farmer..in Surry, was robb'd in her own house in the middle of the day by some Irish travellers. 1916 Jrnl. Gypsy Lore Soc. 9 142 By other travellers all the family are regarded rather as Irish travellers than as Gypsies. 2017 Hist. Ireland May 21/2 The DNA evidence tells us that Irish Travellers are descended from the earliest settlers in Ireland (c. 8,000 years ago), but that they separated from the main settled Irish community c. 500 years ago. < as lemmas |
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