skean
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He described the defeat as "the night of long skean dhus".
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2015
Last week at 98 he was the oldest Highland chieftain, with tasseled sporran and a jeweled skean dhus dirk in his stocking.
From Time Magazine Archive
Angus, in short, although they had made him a clergyman, would, it was believed by those who knew him, have carried his skean dhu with him to the pulpit.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various
I edged backward, my own hand racing up for a skean I hadn't carried in six years, and fronted them squarely, hoping I could face down the prospect of a roughhouse.
From The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
It was very quiet, until Rakhal added, in a gentle and curiously moderate voice, "Do you still carry a skean, Race?"
From The Door Through Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley
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