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sennachie (iou)



sennachie noun. , shanachie & other vars. LME.
[Gaelic seanachaidh (= Old Irish senchaid), from sean old (Old Irish sen).]
In Ireland and the Scottish Highlands: a professional recorder and reciter of family or traditional history and genealogy, attached to the household of a clan chieftain or person of noble rank. Now, a teller of traditional Gaelic heroic tales.