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Examples
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We hope to get him a sporan at Scarborough Faire in April or May.
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For we're thinking of him dangling by his sporan from the ropes
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It was all real, infernally, hideously real, even to the most minute details: the flying up and down of his kilt, sporan, and swordless scabbard; the bursting of the seam of his coat, near the shoulder; and the absence of one of his clumsy shoe-buckles.
Scottish Ghost Stories Elliott O'Donnell 1918
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The sporan, a large purse of goat or badger's skin, usually ornamented, was hung before.
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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They still wore their distinctive costume, the plaid, the kilt, and the sporan, -- and mingled together, as though they constituted but one family.
An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893
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A big boy in Highland kilts and bonnet and sporan was standing by her, and she found herself staring into a pair of handsome deep blue eyes, blue like the waters of a hillside tarn.
The Head of the House of Coombe Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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A big boy in Highland kilts and bonnet and sporan was standing by her.
Robin Frances Hodgson Burnett 1886
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He would have searched his sporan for a coin to make up to her for the supposed loss of her peats; but he knew well enough there was not a coin in it.
What's Mine's Mine — Complete George MacDonald 1864
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He would have searched his sporan for a coin to make up to her for the supposed loss of her peats; but he knew well enough there was not a coin in it.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
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-- he would not have felt had his sporan been full of sovereigns.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 1 George MacDonald 1864
Tama commented on the word sporan
A scottish hip pouch worn on the front of a kilt.
August 25, 2009