| The Kailyard literature, and the garish symbols of Tartanry, fortified each other and became a sort of substitute for nationalism. |
| By the middle of the 19th century the Kailyard school of prose had become the dominant literary genre, overtaking poetry. |
| Kailyard school, late 19th-century movement in Scottish fiction characterized by a sentimental idealization of humble village life. |
| Despite the mawkish excesses of the kailyard, RL Stevenson showed it was possible to use Scots easily and without sentimentality and in the next century Robert Garioch made it a vehicle for great themes. |
| Hugh MacDiarmid, junking the Burns tradition and the kailyard, turned to the etymological dictionary to concoct 'plastic Scots', in Edwin Muir's dismissive phrase. |
| Time went on, and in the kailyard at home the cabbages were disappearing as fast as ever. |
