laird

Example Sentences

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In the opening episode, Cumming’s flamboyant laird secretly taps a certain number of players to be secret Traitors while the rest play as Faithfuls.

From Salon • Jan. 9, 2025

Nightcaps may be had at Elsa’s Bar, named for the Italian-born fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli, whose avant-garde creations were worn by Frances Farquharson, a fashion editor who married a Scottish laird and lived nearby.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2023

He consequently dines secretly with his old friend Bunker and, through that trickster’s baleful influence, soon finds himself in a Scottish castle, passing himself off as its new laird, Lord Tulliwuddle.

From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021

The word means “drowned land” in Gaelic; back in the 14th century, a local laird known as The Wolf of Badenoch brutishly held sway over the district.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 14, 2020

The laird of Lothian moved his bandage feverishly.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White