Lallan

American  

[lal-uhn] / ˈlæl ən /

adjective

Scot.

1. belonging to the Lowlands of Scotland.

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Etymology

Origin of Lallan

First recorded in 1775–85; variant of lowland

Example Sentences

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Lallan

But ai your doings to rehearse, Your wily snares an' fechtin' fierce, Sin' that day Michael did you pierce,                Down to this time, Wad ding a Lallan tongue, or Erse,                In prose or rhyme.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

He’ll speir; an’ I, his mou’ to steik: “No’ bein’ fit to write in Greek, I wrote in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat-reek, Auld as Tantallon.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis

No bein' fit to write in Greek, I write in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat reek, Auld as Tantallon.

From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis

But a’ your doings to rehearse, Your wily snares an’ fechtin fierce, Sin’ that day Michael did you pierce, Down to this time, Wad ding a’ Lallan tongue, or Erse, In prose or rhyme.

From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert

I tackled the Whitrett severely on a grammar you had published, which I had not seen and condemned out of hand and in the broadest Lallan.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew