kailyard

Noun

 * 1)  A kitchen garden.
 * 2) * 1860–62,, "The Widow and Her Daughters", , Vol. II:
 * There was formerly a poor widow, and she had three daughters, and all she had to feed them was a kailyard. There was a great gray horse who was coming every day to the yard to eat the kail.
 * 1) A late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century school of writing, set in small Scottish towns, a notable example being J. M Barrie's A Small Minister