laird
(historical) A feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
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From the Eastman & Laird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics, Issue 17, comes these new NECA figures of Daimyo Orkai and his pet Raptor, arriving late 2026 as a general release 2-Pack www.mephitsu.co.uk/post/neca-te.…
It seems that applejack has never received designation as an Official Spirit of New Jersey, I may have just hallucinated that after a long night on the Laird's...maybe it should get official designation though? There…
Laird Barron is an equal if not greater point of reference for DG, and I always thought Barron's "Cthulhu eats the cult of the operator" stories were cannily engaged with the acid Orientalism of Paul Bowles, whose cha…
NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT by Laird Barron MOUTH: STORIES by Puloma Ghosh GREEN FROG by Gina Chung And of course… Any of the collections written by Mariana Enriquez
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(historical) A feudal lord in Scottish contexts.
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(chiefly, Scotland) A landowner, particularly in Scottish contexts.
Though now entered on the stage of glorious war, the young Laird of Dalbracken remained still the same imaginative and sensitive being who dreamed and loved in the scenes of his boyhood.
“From the Eastman & Laird Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comics, Issue 17, comes these new NECA figures of Daimyo Orkai and his pet Raptor, arriving late 2026 as a general release 2-Pack www.mephitsu.co.uk/post/neca-te... #NECA #TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles”
— Bluesky· May 2026“It seems that applejack has never received designation as an Official Spirit of New Jersey, I may have just hallucinated that after a long night on the Laird's...maybe it should get official designation though? There s a genuinely interesting history there.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Laird Barron is an equal if not greater point of reference for DG, and I always thought Barron's "Cthulhu eats the cult of the operator" stories were cannily engaged with the acid Orientalism of Paul Bowles, whose characters' undoing in foreign lands tends to be self-inflicted”
— Bluesky· May 2026“NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT by Laird Barron MOUTH: STORIES by Puloma Ghosh GREEN FROG by Gina Chung And of course… Any of the collections written by Mariana Enriquez”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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(chiefly, Scotland) An aristocrat, particularly in Scottish contexts and in reference to the chiefs of the Scottish clans.
Once I was call'd a great Fife laird,I dwelt not far from the Hall-yard:[...]O! but it's long and many a year,Since [[last
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