"custom" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- It took its title from the Irish custom of hosting a gathering, both festive and mournful, on the eve of departing for America.
- He also wished to see Kerry colonised by English gentlemen, and Irish customs such as tanistry abolished.
- For many centuries it had been Irish custom to display a large wooden cross inside the monastic building enclosure.
- In Irish custom, the chief of a "sept" or clan was elected from a small noble lineage group called a derbfine.
- I stood at the window smoking a cigarette and looked out at the night, an old Irish custom.
- In the thirteenth century English law was sufficiently defined to be transportable, and so supersede Irish custom, which was dismissed as barbarous.
- Some came to see Gaelic as a statement by people who wanted to flaunt their devotion to Irish custom.
- He would have shared the farm with his brother in the end, as was the Irish custom, but he didn't want that kind of life.
- Many Irish-Americans formed their own units, which embraced Irish customs such as Catholic masses and priests.
- We will wake her for several days, correct Irish custom, yes?
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