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Manx

noun

The ancient Gaelic formerly spoken on the Isle of Man; the language is sometimes used on ceremonial occasions.

A short-haired tailless breed of cat believed to originate on the Isle of Man. Synonym: Manx cat.

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"Manx" Quotes from Famous Books

... rules and regulations for visiting and calls; and they were announced to any young people who might be staying in the town, with all the solemnity with which the old Manx laws were read once a ...

— Cranford • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

... population are still Keltic, though sufficiently different from the Scotch, Irish, and Manx, to be considered as a separate branch of that stock. It is conveniently called British, Cambrian, and Cambro-Briton. It is quite unintelligible to any Gael. Neither can any Gael, talking Gaelic, make himself understood by a Briton. On ...

— The Ethnology of the British Islands • Robert Gordon Latham

... about seven miles long, and where we live it is about a quarter of a mile wide. It was named after my sister Mona, who was named after Castle Mona, in the Isle of Man. Papa has the American flag on a flag-staff on our house, and the Manx flag, with the three legs, on a pole set ...

— Harper's Young People, August 31, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various

Words linked to "Manx" : man, Gaelic, Manx cat, Felis domesticus, Felis catus, Erse, domestic cat, Goidelic, house cat