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  • noun Plural form of laird.

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Examples

  • Religion was changed and a new distribution of political power secured, transferring the ascendency of the crown and of the old privileged orders to a class of "new men," low-born ministers of the kirk, small "lairds" and burgesses.

    The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910

  • Paranormal, time travel, historical, full of scottish lairds and the fae. (yum!).

    Friday Book Club Nalini Singh 2009

  • The barrels, however, had held rye whiskey, not the single-malt Scotch that the lairds of the manor would have sipped.

    Beer: A rally for drinking sanity Greg Kitsock 2010

  • In the 1930s, under island lairds the Runcimans, it was a vision of modern agriculture.

    Back to the land: from London to sheep farming on Eigg 2011

  • So, see any hot Scottish men (or lairds) in kilts lately?

    Bonny Scotland Nalini Singh 2009

  • She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life … and shatter her heart.

    Outlander Book Series Coming to the Big Screen | /Film 2008

  • No one had more resources or trained men than Duncan, and few lairds were as well regarded.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • “You are attempting to gather the other lairds behind the prince, then?”

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • “You are attempting to gather the other lairds behind the prince, then?”

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

  • No one had more resources or trained men than Duncan, and few lairds were as well regarded.

    Much Ado About Marriage Karen Hawkins 2010

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