kaleyard

kaleyard

(ˈkeɪlˌjɑːd; Scottish -ˌjard) or

kailyard

n
Scot a vegetable garden
[C19: literally: cabbage garden]
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"They used to close the gate on the walls at the Kaleyard and all the Welsh had to go or they would be shot!"
To be fair, Salmond did try to dismantle it first, demanding a Scottish Broadcasting Service airing kaleyard kitsch for the glens in the hope viewers turn their back on the Thames and the bass drumbeat of Eastenders.
A kaleyard is the Scottish term referring to a field of kale.
The 'kaleyard school' was a group of 19th century writers from which country?
(69) Typically Ian Maclaren, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush (1894) (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1895) entitled after the Jacobite song "There is a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard." Kailyard (or kaleyard) means cabbage patch or kitchen garden.
At Burns' Suppers, he recited Tam O'Shanter with dramatics but was contemptuous of "the backward-looking Scotland of the kaleyard, tartanry and the broadsword".
The 'kaleyard school' was a group of writers from which country?
``Cathedral choirboys play within a stone's throw of the Kaleyard Gate, many families picnic on the green and many young women spend time there on their own.
The complainant claimed 39-year-old Chambers dragged her into one of the public toilets at the Kaleyards in Chester and forced himself on her on May 29 last year.
Tommy's Hair Company, of The Kaleyards, in Chester city centre, was named Salon of the Year 2 at the British Hairdressing Business Awards 2011 in London's Lancaster London Hotel.
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Other work crafted by the 23-year-old from Holywell is being shown at Kaleyards Gallery, in Chester, until September 7.