kailyard
/ˈkeɪljɑrd/
noun
- A kitchen garden or cabbage patch, especially in Scotland.
- She spent the morning weeding the kailyard.
- The old stone wall enclosed the family's kailyard.
- Behind the cottage was a small kailyard with rows of vegetables.
- A style of Scottish literature from the late 19th and early 20th centuries that idealized rural, sentimental village life.
- The author was famous for his kailyard stories about country folk.
- Critics sometimes dismissed the kailyard school as too sentimental.
- She studied the kailyard tradition in her literature class.
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