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the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Gillie
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(from the Gael. gille, Irish gille or giolla, a servant or boy), an attendant on a Gaelic chieftain; in this sense its use, save historically, is rare. The name is now applied in the Highlands of Scotland to the man-servant who attends a sportsman in shooting or fishing. A gillie-wetfoot, a term now obsolete (a translation of gillie-casfliuch, from the Gaelic cas, foot, and fliuch, wet), was the gillie whose duty it was to carry his master over streams. It became a term of contempt among the Lowlanders for the "tail" (as his attendants were called) of a Highland chief.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gillie'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gillie.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Gillie'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/g/gillie.html. 1910.
