kailyard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Then the youngest Princess determined to sit out in the kailyard all night, not so much to see what was becoming of the cabbages, as to discover what had happened to her sisters.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
‘No more kailyard talk for me,’ he thought, with satisfaction.
From The Disentanglers by Lang, Andrew
She had, besides, a good large kailyard, from which she contrived to support her cow during the winter season.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 by Various
What, is this kailyard that inexhaustible paradise of a garden in which M—— and I found “elbow-room,” and expatiated together without sensible constraint?
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Stevenson, Robert Louis
Time went on, and in the kailyard at home the cabbages were disappearing as fast as ever.
From The Scottish Fairy Book by Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
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