Lallan
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of Lallan
First recorded in 1775–85; variant of lowland
Example Sentences
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Even filling up the tank has become a chore as gas stations, which have been authorized to accept the old bills for a limited time, refuse to make change, said Lallan Jaiswal, a cabby sitting idle by the roadside, his khaki uniform slung over the driver’s seat.
From Los Angeles Times
Lallan, lal′an, n. the Scotch dialect.
From Project Gutenberg
I tackled the Whitrett severely on a grammar you had published, which I had not seen and condemned out of hand and in the broadest Lallan.
From Project Gutenberg
He’ll speir; an’ I, his mou’ to steik: “No’ bein’ fit to write in Greek, I wrote in Lallan, Dear to my heart as the peat-reek, Auld as Tantallon.
From Project Gutenberg
Once—I translate John’s Lallan, for I cannot do it justice, being born Britannis in montibus, indeed, but alas! inerudito saeculo—once, in the days of his good dog, he had bought some sheep in Edinburgh, and on the way out, the road being crowded, two were lost.
From Project Gutenberg
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