clachan
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of clachan
1375–1425; late Middle English ( Scots ) < Scots Gaelic, equivalent to clach stone + -an diminutive suffix
Example Sentences
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As well as a clan banquet, the event included a visit to Hanna's Close, a clachan of traditional houses, which has been in place in Aughnahoory just outside Kilkeel since the 1640s.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2023
This page has since been fixed with proper Scots and now states that a veelage is “muckler nor a clachan but no as muckle nor a toun.”
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2020
Most picturesque exhibit is a full-scale Highland clachan squat in the middle of the fair's modernistic, pastel-shaded buildings.
From Time Magazine Archive
And the young men of the clachan and glens were wild.
From Kenneth McAlpine A Tale of Mountain, Moorland and Sea by Gordon Stables
I remember one inn, at a cold windy clachan on the west coast, which only stress of weather and dire necessity would make a man enter.
From Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland by Daniel Turner Holmes
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