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dullahans

dullahans is the plural of dullahan.

Meaning of dullahan

Noun

dullahan (plural dullahans)

  1. (Irish) A black-clad (usually male) horserider in Irish folklore which carries its severed head like a lantern and may be repelled by gold; when it stops riding (or calls out someone's name), someone will die. (Also called the Gan Ceann, Irish for "[one] without a head".)
    • The dullahans always came in a mist. But Devin wasn't afraid of dullahans. If he saw one, he would club it over the head. But then Devin remembered that dullahans didn't have heads. He grasped his stick a little tighter in his hand, […]1990, Elona Malterre, The Last Wolf of Ireland, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 3

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Noun capitalized: Dullahans

Dullahans

  1. (plural) plural of Dullahan

Questions about dullahans

What is dullahans the plural of?
Dullahans is the plural of dullahan.
What part of speech is dullahans?
Dullahans is a noun.

Words near dullahans in the dictionary

  1. dulla
  2. dullable
  3. dullaghan
  4. dullaghans
  5. dullahan
  6. dullahans
  7. Dullao
  8. dullard
  9. dullardism
  10. dullardly
  11. dullardness

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