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cairn

[kairn] / kɛərn /




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One person would stay at the first cairn while another would try to locate the next cairn.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 20, 2024

In Pollokshaws, where Maclean was from, he is remembered by a memorial cairn and a stained-glass window in the nearby library.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

I’ve been there myself, digging as deep as I could into the long and honorable history of my cairn terriers and Pomeranians.

From New York Times • Oct. 4, 2021

In yet another reminder that we’re in Hollywood, on the other side of the stone wall stands a memorial to the cairn terrier that played Toto in the movie.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2021

The cairn was a little taller than me, long and narrow with a rectangular opening in one end, like a door, and it rose from the mud on a tussock of grass.

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs




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