单词 | shanavest |
释义 | Shanavestn. Irish History. plural. The name of one of the fighting factions into which the peasantry of the South of Ireland were formerly divided. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warriors collectively > [noun] > Irish kerna1500 Feinne1782 Shanavests1811 Fenian1816 1811 J. Jebb Let. 10 July in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) II. 41 The Archbishop..promises to insure you against caravats, shanavests, and all such marauders. 1823 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 14 518 Whiteboys, Shanavats,..and Captain Rock. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales III. 380 My father..was the best fighting man with a stick that the Shanavests ever had. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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