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English
Etymology
From Galloway, Scotland, where they were bred.
Noun
galloway (plural galloways)
- A kind of small horse originally bred in Galloway, Scotland.
1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, , volume I, Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC, page 164:but if you have no mercy upon them, yet ſpare your ſelfe, leſt you bejade the good Galloway, your owne opiniaſter Wit,
1792, Charlotte Smith, Desmond, Broadview, published 2001, page 173:‘Don't you remember a famous trotting galloway I had, two years ago, that I bought at Tattersall's, that would go fifteen miles within the hour?’
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