Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Whiskers of a style peculiar to Galwaymen.

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Examples

  • As children, the Mexicans are rather pretty; but when a girl passes twenty she gets "mucho-mucho" avoirdupois, and at thirty she sports a mustache and "galways" that would cause

    Six Months in Mexico 1888

  • Mr. Halliwell evidently has an idea rumbling round in his otherwise tenantless atticroom that he's a Brahmin of the Brahmins, an aristocrat dead right, a goo-goo for your Klondyke galways, a Lady Vere de Vere in plug hat and "pants."

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • And, listen, now do enhance me, oblige my fiancy and bear it with you morn till life’s e’en and, of course, when never you make usage of it, listen, please kindly think galways again or again, never forget, of one absendee not sester Maggy.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • 'mutton chops,' or 'siders'; if my nose projects, almost like a nose trying to escape from a face to which it has been sentenced for life, a pair of large, handsome moustaches will provide a proper entourage -- a nest, so to speak, on which the nose rests contentedly, almost like a setting hen; if my nose retreats backward into my face, the æsthetic solution is obviously galways.

    The Perfect Gentleman Ralph Bergengren 1909

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