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单词 Dullahan
释义

Dullahan

See also: dullahan

English

Etymology

The surname is from Irish Ó Dubhlacháin, meaning "descendant of [the] Dubhlachán", variously interpreted as "black duckling"[1] or "dark, sullen person", ultimately related to if not cognate with dullahan (headless horserider).[2]

Noun

Dullahan (plural Dullahans)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dullahan
    • 2012, Armen Pogharian, Misaligned: The Celtic Connection, SynergEbooks, →ISBN, page 111:
      “With the Bodach defeated, no one thought to protect Gwen. A Dullahan discovered her and used the necklace to control her. Through her, it learned everything about Arthur's defenses.”
    • 2016, Mark Latham, Hunting the Headless Horseman, The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc, →ISBN, page 47:
      It was never fully clear to Irving whether the Dullahan and the Gan Ceann were the same entity [...]. Most feared of all the Unseelie, the Dullahan is a bringer of dismay and death. The Dullahan is a headless rider, clad in a flowing black cape and usually mounted upon a black horse that spews flames from its nostrils [] The Dullahan carries its rotting head aloft in one hand like a lantern, the better to see immense distances, while it holds a whip made from a human spinal cord in the other.

Proper noun

Dullahan

  1. A surname from Irish.

References

  1. Patrick Hanks, Richard Coates, Peter McClure, The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland (2016), page 779.
  2. Peter Haining, The Leprechaun's Kingdom (1979), page 39
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