gal·lo·glass or gal·low·glass (g l  -gls )n. An armed retainer or mercenary in the service of an Irish chieftain. [Irish Gaelic galloglach : gall, foreigner + oglach, soldier (from óg, from Old Irish óac; see yeu- in Indo-European roots).] |
galloglass, gallowglass [ˈgæləʊˌglɑːs]
n
(Historical Terms) a heavily armed mercenary soldier, originally Hebridean (Gaelic-Norse), maintained by Irish and some other Celtic chiefs from about 1235 to the 16th century
[from Irish Gaelic gallóglach, from gall foreigner + óglach, young warrior-servant, from og young + -lach a noun suffix]
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