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First published 1952 (SND Vol. III).
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DALLAN, n. (See quot.). Gael.Arg. 1907 N. Munro Daft Days xviii.:
The guizards entered black-faced, garmented as for a masque, each thumping a sheep-skin stretched on a barrel-hoop — the thing we call a dallan.
