Gallo

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Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A Romance language spoken in north-west France, see Gallo language. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A surname. countable
  3. 3
    A brand of low-priced California wine. countable, uncountable

    ""A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with all them trinkets.""

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""A few bottles of Gallo muscatel, and you with all them trinkets.""

Etymology

* As an Italian and Spanish surname, from the noun gallo (“rooster”). * Also as an Italian surname, from the personal name Gallo, from Latin Gallus (“a Gaul”). This is sometimes Americanized from Greek Γάλλος (Gállos). Compare Gallia. * As a Breton surname, shortened from Le Gallo, a diminutive of Le Gall; compare Legall. * (language): From Breton gall (“a Gaul or a foreigner”), from being a language found in eastern Brittany of the non-Celts, from Latin Gallus.

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