Ghillies is an English word. Below you'll find 5 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Ghillies meaning
plural of ghillie
Using Ghillies
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of ghillie
Context around Ghillies
- Average sentence length in these examples: 28.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 3 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 5 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Ghillies
- In this selection, "ghillies" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 28.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ball and taught stand out and add context to how "ghillies" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ghillies are only and known as ghillies or pumps. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "ghillies" sits close to words such as aadujeevitham, aani and aarne, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with ghillies
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shoes and costume There are two types of shoes; soft shoes (also known as ghillies or pumps) and hard shoes. (20 words)
Ghillies are only worn by girls, while boys wear black leather shoes called "reel shoes", which resemble black jazz shoes with a hard heel. (24 words)
A man on the Isle of Mull, who had lived abroad for some years, brought home a large monkey which one of his ghillies taught to perform a few tricks. (30 words)
Frances would always be there to greet the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh when they arrived at Balmoral, and would be invited to the Ghillies Ball and have drinks with the Queen Mother at Birkhall. (35 words)
Single and double jigs Single jigs should not be confused with slides ; they are the least common of the jigs, performed in ghillies, in a main or less commonly a main time. (32 words)
A man on the Isle of Mull, who had lived abroad for some years, brought home a large monkey which one of his ghillies taught to perform a few tricks. (30 words)
Example sentences (5)
Frances would always be there to greet the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh when they arrived at Balmoral, and would be invited to the Ghillies Ball and have drinks with the Queen Mother at Birkhall.
A man on the Isle of Mull, who had lived abroad for some years, brought home a large monkey which one of his ghillies taught to perform a few tricks.
Ghillies are only worn by girls, while boys wear black leather shoes called "reel shoes", which resemble black jazz shoes with a hard heel.
Shoes and costume There are two types of shoes; soft shoes (also known as ghillies or pumps) and hard shoes.
Single and double jigs Single jigs should not be confused with slides ; they are the least common of the jigs, performed in ghillies, in a main or less commonly a main time.