kailyard
A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J.
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A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister.
: There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.
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(Scotland) A kitchen garden.
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