kailyard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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What, is this kailyard that inexhaustible paradise of a garden in which M—— and I found “elbow-room,” and expatiated together without sensible constraint?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
Then the youngest Princess determined to sit out in the kailyard all night, not so much to see what was becoming of the cabbages, as to discover what had happened to her sisters.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
"I am your host, sir; what do you call for, Mr. Stuart of -?" said I, knowing there is never a Scot but has the name of his kailyard tacked to his own.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang
She had, besides, a good large kailyard, from which she contrived to support her cow during the winter season.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
And Holyrood Park is a bonny place, But 'tis nae place for me and you; And the Embro' baillies lets it For a kailyard oot to feu.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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