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
I threw my skean away before I came here.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
It is my grandfather's skean dhu," he said: "I mend my pens with it, you know!
From Donal Grant, by George MacDonald by MacDonald, George
The hilt of his skean was carved from a single green gem.
From The Door Through Space by Bradley, Marion Zimmer
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
