laird
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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
The man behind plans to buy and rewild a 3,500-acre estate in Argyll has insisted he is not a "green laird".
From BBC ● Jan. 22, 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 laird of Lothian moved his bandage feverishly.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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