kailyard
Britishnoun
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My favorite one has an imposing title: “Chambers Scots Dictionary: serving as a glossary for Ramsay, Fergusson, Burns, Scott, Galt, minor poets, Kailyard novelists, and a host of other writers of the Scottish tongue,” compiled by Alexander Warrack.
From New York Times
Her stories were often disparagingly dubbed "Kailyard fiction", a reference to the parochialism and sentimentality of the writing.
From BBC
Fareweel my auld kailyard, ilk bush an' ilk tree!
From Project Gutenberg
They had a kailyard in front of the cottage, and a little field behind it, and they had a cow that grazed in the field, and which they fed with the cabbages that grew in the kailyard.
From Project Gutenberg
But in the small hours of the morning, just as the clock was striking two, she heard a stealthy trampling in the field behind, as if some very heavy person were trying to tread very softly, and presently a mighty Giant stepped right over the wall into the kailyard.
From Project Gutenberg
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