kailyard
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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 Stevenson, Robert Louis
And Holyrood Park is a bonny place, But 'tis nae place for me and you; And the Embro' baillies lets it For a kailyard oot to feu.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
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
"I am your host, sir; what do you call for, Mr. Stuart of -?" said I, knowing there is never a Scot but has the name of his kailyard tacked to his own.
From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Lang, Andrew
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