skean
Example Sentences
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He described the defeat as "the night of long skean dhus".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2015
Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking.
From Time Magazine Archive
One guard pushed my skean back into its clasp.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
Their fronts are hidden by hangings of tartan cloth; the windows are decked with sporrans, dirks, cairngorm plaid-brooches, ram's-head snuff-boxes, bullocks' horns and skean dhus.
From Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places by Forbes, Archibald
I moved backward, hand on my skean, braced for a sudden rush.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
