Connemara
(kɒnɪˈmɑːrə)
The name of the district in the west of County Galway, Ireland, used attrib. to designate objects, animals, etc., from that district; esp. Connemara marble, a banded serpentinous marble (cf. Irish green).
| 1861 Mrs. Gaskell Let. 26 Dec. (1966) 672 We made no great ado about presents this year. Julia a scarlet Connemara Cloak. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 683/1 The Galway rock comes into the market under the name of ‘Irish green’ or ‘Connemara marble’. 1896 G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) ii. 29 Every female one [is] a colleen in a crimson Connemara cloak. 1916 W. B. Yeats 8 Poems Gray Connemara cloth. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 320 Wine, peltries, Connemara marble. 1936 J. T. Jenkins Fishes Brit. Is. (ed. 2) 107 Connemara Sucker (Lepadogaster decandolii). 1950 Oxf. Jun. Encycl. IX. 289/1 The Connemara pony, which is 13–14 hands high and is frequently grey, comes from Connaught. 1965 ‘N. Blake’ Private Wound v. 72 My tall Connemara tweed hat had flown off my head. |