A variant spelling of "calgarth," meaning "kailyard": "a cabbage garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage." Context sentence from Frontier Wolf by Rosemary Sutcliff (1980): "...this country that they knew as a man knows his own kalegarth."
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hcethatsme commented on the word kailyard
"a cabbage garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage."
June 17, 2009
hcethatsme commented on the word kalegarth
A variant spelling of "calgarth," meaning "kailyard": "a cabbage garden, kitchen-garden, such as is commonly attached to a small cottage." Context sentence from Frontier Wolf by Rosemary Sutcliff (1980): "...this country that they knew as a man knows his own kalegarth."
June 17, 2009