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},
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"Southern-England"
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"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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"translations": [
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "Scottish nobleman",
"word": "axa"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "Scottish nobleman",
"word": "xwedîerd"
}
],
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}
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"Rhymes:English/ɛə(ɹ)d",
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"ref": "1874, George Outram, “The Banks o’ the Dee”, in Henry Glassford Bell, editor, Lyrics Legal and Miscellaneous, 2nd edition, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood & Sons, →OCLC, page 86",
"text": "But cauld was his hearth ere his youdith was o'er, / An' he delved on the lands he had lairded before; / Yet though he beggared his ha' an' deserted his lea, / Contented he roamed on the banks o' the Dee.",
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{
"ref": "2008, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, “A Pair of Antlers”, in Not in Those Shoes, London: Picador, page 21",
"text": "You'd stand with a single malt, / in braces, admiring a Grinling, / while I did a fingertip search of your face, / [...] / discovering the recesses of baronial you, / lairding it in a rental estate / we were about to lose.",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "2013, Victoria Roberts, chapter 18, in X Marks the Scot, Naperville, Ill.: Sourcebooks Casablanca, page 194",
"text": "Declan observed him, analyzing his reaction. He loved to unnerve his lairding brother.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"ref": "2017 May 13, Ian Hughes, “Date with The Wicker Man for outdoor screening at Compton Verney”, in Leamington Observer, archived from the original on 2017-05-16",
"text": "Classic horror movie The Wicker Man is getting an outside airing at Compton Verney. [...] Set on a remote Scottish island lairded over by the incomparable Christopher Lee, the film strands the viewer – and young policeman Edward Woodward – among a neo-pagan community where blood sacrifice, passion and lust collide in the mist.",
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