cèilidh

plural cèilidhs

1. alternativeAlternative form of ceilidh.

   Although cèilidhs were undoubtedly crucial for oral tradition’s transmission, aspects – particularly song – were all-pervasive and ever-present.

   2013, Robert Dunbar, “Vernacular Gaelic Tradition”, in Sarah Dunnigan, Suzanne Gilbert, editors, The Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN

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   A caller is the person who calls out the instructions to the dancers at barn dances and cèilidhs, such as, ‘now turn and face the Moor Cock wall!’

   2018, Philip Dixon, Dairy Cows & Duck Races: The Life & Times of a Young Farmer, Poundbury, Dorset: Veloce Publishing, published 2019, →ISBN

   I can’t remember my first cèilidh. (In fact, it is in the nature of cèilidhs NOT to remember them, simply because of the sheer amount of whisky consumed.)

   2021, Sam Heughan, Graham McTavish, The Clanlands Almanac: Seasonal Stories from Scotland, London: Hodder & Stoughton, →ISBN