英语词汇“highland clearances”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

Highland clearances n. the forced eviction and relocation of crofters in the Scottish Highlands by landlords in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, principally to make way for sheep-farming.

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1845 Atlas 24 May 1/2 Highland Clearances—a process by which proprietors of the Highland districts of Scotland improve their estates and their incomes at the cost of an amount of suffering, physical and moral.

1883 Athenæum 3 Mar. 275 The story of the Highland clearances deserves to be told.

1970 J. McPhee Crofter & Laird 7 From the perspective of the late twentieth century, there seems to be only one possible view of the Highland clearances, as they are called, but contemporary writers often showed different attitudes.

2002 Country Life 19 Dec. 65/1 Ever since the Highland clearances more than 200 years ago, pink politicians have had land reform high on their agenda.

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