A gillie or ghillie is an assistant who attends to a person who is hunting or fishing in Scotland. Ghillie or gillie may also refer to: *

Ghillie brogues The brogue (derived from the Gaeilge ( Irish), and the Gaelic ( Scottish) for "shoe") is a style of low-heeled shoe or boot traditionally characterised by multiple-piece, sturdy leather uppers with decorative perforations (or "broguing") and ...

, a type of brogue shoe * Ghillie kettle, a type of portable water boiler *

Ghillie suit A ghillie suit is a type of camouflage clothing designed to resemble the background environment such as foliage, snow or sand. Typically, it is a net or cloth garment covered in loose strips of burlap ( hessian), cloth, or twine, sometimes made t ...

, a camouflage outfit *

Ghillie shirt A Ghillie shirt, also known as Jacobean or Jacobite, is an informal traditional shirt usually worn with a kilt. The term Ghillie refers to the criss-crossed lacing style made of leather as also seen on the Ghillie Brogue. Ghillie shirts are consi ...

, a traditional Scottish style of shirt *

Ghillie Dhu In Scottish folklore the Ghillie Dhu or Gille Dubh () was a solitary male fairy. He was kindly and reticent, yet sometimes wild in character. He had a gentle devotion to children. Dark-haired and clothed in leaves and moss, he lived in a birch wood ...

, a Scottish faerie * Ghillies (dance shoes), shoes used in Irish and Scottish dancing

People

* Annis Gillie (1900–1985), British physician * Cecilia Gillie (1907–1996), English radio executive * Farrand Gillie (1905–1972), Canadian professional ice hockey player * George W. Gillie (1880–1963), U.S. congressman from Indiana * Ghillie Basan (born 1962), Scottish food and travel writer * Gillie Alldis (1920–1998), football wing half * Gillie Larew (1882–1977), American mathematician *

Gillie Potter Hugh William Peel (14 September 1887 – 4 March 1975), better known as Gillie Potter, was an English comedian and broadcaster. Life He was born in Bedford to Brignal Peel (died 1933), a Wesleyan minister, and Elizabeth Stimson. He was educate ...

(1887–1975), English comedian and broadcaster * Gillie Schattner (born 1965), of Australian sculptors Gillie and Marc * Gillie Wilson (1869–1952), Australian cricketer *

Jean Gillie A ''femme fatale'' ( or ; ), sometimes called a maneater or vamp, is a stock character of a mysterious, beautiful, and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers, often leading them into compromising, deadly traps. She is an archetype of ...

(1915–1949), English film actress * Oliver Gillie (1937–2021), British journalist

Other uses

* Gillie Hampton, a character in the BBC soap opera EastEnders * '' Sheriff v. Gillie'', a U.S. Supreme Court case about debt collection practices

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