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Irishries

Irishries is the plural of Irishry.

Meaning of Irishry

Noun (1)

Irishry pl (plural only)

  1. (archaic, plural, plural-only) The Celtic people of Ireland.
    • the whole Irishry of rebels1649, J[ohn] Milton, ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

Irishry (plural Irishries)

  1. A distinctively Irish mannerism or expression; an Irishism.
    • Nor perhaps would it so much have mattered if it were Dorothy alone who was (to say an Irishry) drifting apart.1906, Appleton’s Booklovers Magazine, volume 7, page 59
  2. (historical) In medieval Ireland, a territory inhabited by Irish people following their own customs.
    • For the period to 1300, Wales and Ireland may be described as frontiers of settlement, where ‘Englishries’ (areas of intensive English settlement) were interspersed with ‘Irishries’ and ‘Welshries’ (areas of native rule), so creating multiple, localised frontiers […] rather than consolidated blocs.1999, Steven G. Ellis, “The English State and its Frontiers in the British Isles, 1300–1600”, in Daniel Power, Naomi Standen, editors, Frontiers in Question: Eurasian Borderlands, 700–1700, →ISBN...

Questions about Irishries

What is Irishries the plural of?
Irishries is the plural of Irishry.

Words near Irishries in the dictionary

  1. Irishman
  2. Irishman's hurricane
  3. Irishmen
  4. Irishness
  5. Irishphobia
  6. Irishries
  7. Irishry
  8. Irishtown
  9. Irishtown-Summerside
  10. Irishwoman
  11. Irishwomen

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