gillie
gi lee
- n a young male attendant on a Scottish Highlander chief
- n a shoe without a tongue and with decorative lacing up the instep
- As a guest of Queen Victoria, Landseer went deerstalking with a gillie from Balmoral.
- Macmillan occasionally visits the Homes for the grouse shooting, and, friends say, was about to tip the gillie 2 one day, when the thrifty Earl advised him sharply: "Half as .
- That paragon of puritanical virtue, Queen Victoria, was thought by some of her contemporaries to be the secret wife of Disraeli or the secret mistress of her Scottish gillie, John .