kailyard
Britishnoun
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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 Elizabeth Wilson Grierson
The inn garden descends in terraces to the river; stableyard, kailyard, orchard, and a space of lawn, fringed with rushes and embellished with a green arbour.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
‘No more kailyard talk for me,’ he thought, with satisfaction.
From The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang
Fareweel my auld kailyard, ilk bush an' ilk tree!
From Mr. Punch in the Highlands by Various
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