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kailyard en · NOUN

Etymology

From kail + yard.

Meanings

1. (Scotland) A kitchen garden.
   • 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. 1860–62, J.F. Campbell, "The Widow and Her Daughters", Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. II
2. 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

Forms

Deriveds

kailyardism · Kailyard school · kailyarder