philabeg
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The Norseman is much indebted to the Scot––but it would not do to flaunt the feathered cap and philabeg too much––on Kirkwall streets.”
From An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
How can I lay my sporran by, An' sit me doun at hame, Wi'oot a Hieland philabeg Or hyphenated name?
From Penelope's Experiences in Scotland by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
I think you will like it: it is Scottified up to the teeth, and somehow I feel myself like the liberated chiefs of the Rolliad, "who boast their native philabeg restored."
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
Cam ye by Athol, lad wi' the philabeg, Down by the Tummel or banks o' the Garry, Saw ye our lads wi' their bonnets and white cockades, Leaving their mountains to follow Prince Charlie?
From The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century by Charles Rogers
Roun’ his hairy form there was naething seen, But a philabeg o’ the rashes green, An’ his knotted knees play’d aye knoit between; What a sicht was Aiken-drum!
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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