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  • noun UK, Ireland Plural form of ghillie.

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Examples

  • The soft shoes, called ghillies, are worn by beginner girls and resemble ballet shoes.

    chicagotribune.com - 2009

  • I would also get a 3D leaf suit vs a ghillie, ghillies are usually rather hot and the strings will probably get caught in the bow string.

    I am a brand new recurve bow hunter. 2009

  • My pal Donald Morrison, who ghillies on the Cassley, told me the other day that he thought we weren't catching "because there are too many fish", which is an excuse I've never heard before.

    Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever 2011

  • My pal Donald Morrison, who ghillies on the Cassley, told me the other day that he thought we weren't catching "because there are too many fish", which is an excuse I've never heard before.

    Salmon are back in Scottish rivers in force, and as elusive as ever 2011

  • These ghillies were not waterproof, having slits all the way around but they fit the foot.

    A Brief History of the Shoe « Colleen Anderson 2009

  • I would also get a 3D leaf suit vs a ghillie, ghillies are usually rather hot and the strings will probably get caught in the bow string.

    I am a brand new recurve bow hunter. 2009

  • James took his family to set off south, Himself left to meet his guests and ghillies at Crathie to bother the silver swimmers in the Spey, and Jed arrived to pick me up and set my normal life back on course.

    They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

  • And he strutted about in his ridiculous Alpine hat and tartan cloak, while the loaders were called and the brakes made ready, and the ghillies loafed about grinning on the terrace with the guns and pouches - they knew I loathed it, and that Ellenborough couldn't carry his guts more than ten yards without a rest, and the brutes enjoyed our discomfiture.

    Fiancée 2010

  • He was keen as mustard, though, and slaughtered stags like a Ghazi on hashish - you'll hardly credit it, but his notion of sport was that a huge long trench should be dug so that we could sneak up on the deer unobserved; he'd have done it, too, but the local ghillies showed so much disgust at the idea that he dropped it.

    Fiancée 2010

  • In this sense, of all the photographs that have so far been released to tell the fairytale, the one of Carole Middleton lying flat out on the Balmoral estate with a gun in her arms being tutored in hunting etiquette by one of the royal ghillies is the most telling.

    Royal engagement: Kate's triumph for Britain's middle classes Tim Adams 2010

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