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kailyard
Part of speech: Usage examples "kailyard":- He wrote, under the name of" Ian Maclaren" several novels belonging to the" Kailyard" school, including Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush and The Days of Auld Lang Syne, which had great popularity both at home and in America. - "A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature", John W. Cousin.
- Scott's dialect, although true to nature, is not difficult, as he did not consider it necessary to give all the colloquial terms, like the modern" kailyard" writers. - "Modern English Books of Power", George Hamlin Fitch.