Welshman or Irishwoman, e.g

Usage examples of celt.

Those Celtic tribes occupying modern Brittany were much smaller and darker than other Celts, as were many Aquitanian tribes.

Britannia had been conquered by foot-slogging legionaries, heavy infantry that crushed every attack the frantic Celts could throw at them.

His head was still sticky with the beer that the buffoon had poured on it, and we all knew Clodius was angry at the Celts for marring his throat.

If the Celts were going to resist, it would surely be here, at the boundary of their holiest trees.

As the Romans closed, someone pulled from behind, and the priest abruptly vanished, even as more Celts emerged from the trees.

The other Celts had set themselves ready, and the Romans ran into a volley.

On and on they cantered, even the Celts beginning to slump, and just as Valeria felt so dizzy, sick, and weak with hunger that she feared she might tumble from her saddle, they finally paused for evening.

The place was a sty, and not one of these Celts had the breeding to even notice.

A great iron kettle was filled with water and warmed by heated stones for the company to wash there before eating, the Celts surprising her with their fastidiousness.

Most of these Celts were related, and all had a role to play in their small society: the storyteller, the jokester, the warrior, the mother hen, the tippler, the magician, the singer, the cook.

There were a few drunk and satiated Celts passed out in the banquet hall, but none stirred when she emerged.

The Celts would start a hundred projects with the enthusiasm of children and abandon them just as swiftly to go riding, wrestle in mock fights, shoot arrows, or make love, their passion audible from the round walls of their houses.

Only in their animals did the Celts expect discipline, the dogs kept in order with the kick of a boot and the horses ridden so constantly and hard that they melded through thigh and fist and heel into the mind of their riders.

But the chase after victory, when the Celts fled, would be like trying to catch the wind.

And somehow the boar heard the human thoughts as the Celts heard his, both taking the measure of the other.