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ˈkale-, ˈkail-yard Sc.
[f. kale + yard. The strictly Sc. form is kail yaird (kelˈjɛrd).]
1. A cabbage-garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage.
1725Ramsay Gentle Sheph. ii. iii, A green kail-yaird. c1730Burt Lett. N. Scotl. (1754) I. ii. 33 A fit Enclosure for a Cale-Yard, i.e. a little Garden for Coleworts. 1800A. Carlyle Autobiog. 473 Trees..planted in every kail-yard, as their little gardens are called. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxxviii, What comes o' our ain bit free house, and the kale-yard, and the cow's grass? 1894L. B. Walford Ploughed 42 The little rough gravelled approach and kail-yard.
2. Used with reference to a class of recent fiction, affecting to describe, with much use of the vernacular, common life in Scotland; hence attrib. as Kailyard School, a collective term applied to the writers of such novels or sketches; kailyard dialect, kailyard vocabulary. Hence kailˈyarder, -ism.[The appellation is taken from the Scottish Jacobite song ‘There grows a bonnie brier bush in our kailyard’, from which ‘Ian Maclaren’ took the title of the series of short stories ‘Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush’ (1894), which was an early and popular example of this school of writing.] 1895J. H. Millar Literature of Kailyard in New Review Apr. 384 Mr. J. M. Barrie is fairly entitled to look upon himself as pars magna, if not pars maxima, of the Great Kailyard Movement. 1895Blackw. Mag. June, Those romances in dialect, very fitly and cleverly called the Literature of the Kailyard by a recent critic. 1896Dundee Advertiser 1 Aug., Having been assured by many critics that the Kailyard School is quite photographic in its reproduction of Scottish life and character. 1896Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 3/2 Among its contributors lately has been..one of the minor ‘kailyairders’. 1899Academy 7 Jan. 3/1 But Mr. Crockett is no Kailyarder in his romances. Ibid. 14 Jan. 50/2 A little outburst of Kailyardism. 1900Athenæum 9 June 709/3 He wrote as he spoke, and his kailyard vocabulary occasionally baffles his editor. |