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kaleyard

kaleyard is the alternative form of kailyard.

Meaning of kailyard

Noun

kailyard (plural kailyards)

  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 of kaleyard

pluralkaleyards

Questions about kaleyard

What is kaleyard the alternative form of?
Kaleyard is the alternative form of kailyard.

Words near kaleyard in the dictionary

  1. Kalevalsky District
  2. Kalewala
  3. kaleworm
  4. kaleworms
  5. Kaley
  6. kaleyard
  7. kaleyards
  8. Kaleys
  9. Kalfus
  10. Kalfuses
  11. Kalga

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