kailyard school

noun

1. kaleyard school.

Other Word Forms

• kailyarder noun
• kailyardism noun

Example Sentences

Henley the "Kailyard School," though the imitations were by no means confined to Scotland.

From Project Gutenberg

Though it is a story of to-day, and about a life much like that made familiar by the writers of the Kailyard school, it is not to them, but to such kindred unsentimentalized work as Mr. Shan Bullock's, that you instinctively compare it.

From Project Gutenberg

He wrote, under the name of "Ian Maclaren," several novels belonging to the "Kailyard" school, including Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and The Days of Auld Lang Syne, which had great popularity both at home and in America.

From Project Gutenberg