PHRASES
IN FOCLÓIR GAEILGE—BÉARLA
Rinne siad leaba den fhraoch, they made a bed of the heather.
~ a chur sa fhraoch, to set fire to, scorch, the heather.
~ camógach, Mediterranean heather.
~ cloigíneach, fireann, Lochlannach, bell-heather.
~ (coitianta), ~ mór, Scotch heather, ling.
Spáráil na circe fraoigh ar an bh~, ‘the grouse sparing the heather’, unnecessary frugality.
(Bréidín) ~, heather-mixture (tweed).
~ biolair, fraoigh, sprig of cress, of heather.
Idir mhín is fhraoch, both grassland and heather, fine and rough mountain grazing.
~ fraoigh, tuft of heather.
~ craoibhe, (charred) stalk of long heather.
~í fraoigh, stalks of heather.
~ fraoigh, luachra, clump of heather, of rushes.
~a fraoigh, hummocks overgrown with heather.