callan
- a variation of callant.
Example Sentences
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In response to 0039 who is callan mulvey?
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2010
In the course of a minute or two after, two lassies, with a callan, that had been out, came flying and wailing, giving the alarm to the town.
From The Provost by Galt, John
Oh, witching as its scenes, and bright As is its cloudless summer light, Be still its maids, the soul's delight Of every truthful callan'!
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century by Rogers, Charles
But I'm sorry for the callan, for eh but I loed his father!
From Heather and Snow by MacDonald, George
The one of them had gone off with the soldiers some time before; the other, a douce well-behaved callan, was in my lord’s servitude, as a stable boy at the castle.
From The Provost by Galt, John
