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
From his belt depended some instruments, with the use of which Macpherson was entirely unacquainted; together with a skean dhu of exquisite and uncommon workmanship.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume VI by Alexander Leighton
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 Archibald Forbes
Angus, in short, although they had made him a clergyman, would, it was believed by those who knew him, have carried his skean dhu with him to the pulpit.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
