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SLOGAN , the See also:war-cry of the Highland clans . It was the gathering See also:call of the See also:clan, often the name of the clan, the See also:place of ' See also:meeting, and the like, and was uttered when charging in See also:battle . The Gaelic word, of which " slogan " is the See also:English See also:adaptation, is sluagh-ghairm, from sluagh, See also:army, See also:host, and gairm, call, cry . A variant See also:form of " slogan " is " slogorne," which has given rise to an invented word " slughorn," used by See also:Chatterton (Battle of See also:Hastings, ii . 10) and by See also:Browning (Childe See also:Roland) as if the See also:term meant some See also:kind of war-See also:trumpet or See also:horn . See also:Skeat (Etym . Dict . 1898, Errata and Addenda) has shown that Chatterton used an edition of Gavin See also:Douglas's See also:translation of See also:Virgil, where" slogorne " is spelled " slughorne," and the context, " The deaucht trumpet blawis the See also:brag of were; the slughorne, enseule or the wache cry went for the battall all suld be reddy," misled him . |
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