gallowglass

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Noun
  • For the show, the duo built an office space embedded with silicone paintings full of chivalric symbols: the mirror, the castle, the knight, the enchanted woods.
    Shanti Escalante-De Mattei, ARTnews.com, 7 Mar. 2025
  • The most impressive space, though, might be the armory, which features 18th-century ceiling frescoes and displays armor worn by medieval knights and their horses.
    Laura Itzkowitz, Travel + Leisure, 22 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Some, for example, may overcome their longstanding reluctance to send their own gendarmes to provide civil order in Gaza during reconstruction, as an alternative to taking Palestinians into their own country.
    Carine Harb, Newsweek, 5 Feb. 2025
  • Sadly, the Ferrari’s promising racing career came to a screeching halt when French gendarmes seized the car at the Paris Orly airport parking lot—something about a dispute between Monsieur Fayen and the French tax authorities.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 23 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Responding to internal and external pressure, Taiwan lengthened its conscription term in 2024 from four months to one year for all Taiwanese men born after 2005 and updated the curriculum for conscripts and reservists to include some live-fire drills.
    Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Included in the 5,000 are the additional troops deployed to join the 2,500 federalized National Guardsmen and reservists who had been serving as part of a border mission established by the Trump administration in 2018.
    Luis Martinez, ABC News, 14 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Trump was ultimately forced to revise that proposal, banning new transgender recruits but allowing existing trans troops to stay in the military.
    Rachel Raposas, People.com, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Etheridge helped recruit numerous blue-chip recruits at his last Power 4 job — which was at his alma mater, Auburn.
    Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In addition, only six percent of eligible conscripts reported for training last year; the rest received deferments to complete their education.
    Jennifer Kavanagh, Foreign Affairs, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The true reason of growing desertions lays in low morale and patriotism of recent conscripts who never wanted to defend their homeland and were caught and forced to do that.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Going to celebrate the Passover, Jesus chose to enter the city on the back of a colt, in stark contrast to the warhorses and chariots of Roman armies.
    Lynne Silva-Breen, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, that warhorse of English traditionalism, is mentioned six times, and his plangent music—invoking a lost, idyllic England; a greener, more pleasant land—could easily be the novel’s soundtrack.
    Charles McGrath, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Alex Walsh was a champion in the 200 IM, 400 IM, 200 breast, 200 free relay, 400 medley relay and 400 free relay.
    Casey Murphy, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
  • Seattle's sports scene offers a professional football team, an NHL franchise, a major league baseball team (which ended its 21-year playoff drought recently), and the four-time WNBA champions, the Seattle Storm.
    Melissa Santos, Axios, 28 Feb. 2025
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“Gallowglass.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gallowglass. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.

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