How To Use Sporran In A Sentence
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Our visitors wore the official berretta, European shirts, that contrasted with coral necklaces and rings of zinc, brass, and copper, and handsome waistcoats, fronted by the well-tanned spoil of some “bush” animal, generally a wild cat, hanging like a Scotch sporran — this is and has long been the distinctive sign of a “gentleman.”
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
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Besides the sporran, which dates back to 1890 and is accompanied by a photograph of Lauder wearing it, Johnstone is selling a silver cigar box and two silver cups that once belonged to the entertainer.
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We are going to have to dig way down deep in the sporran to replace it.
Three Cheers for Mrs Beamish
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Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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The sporran is a kind of belt purse, Shari explained.
The Lancaster Men
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Still, she's insistent that the sporran is a unisex accessory.
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His well-knit body was, except for matching shoes and the ubiquitous silken sporran, otherwise uncovered.
Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
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There are also two kilt shops, with Highland regalia for sale or hire, their windows dressed in swathes of tartan and accessories, dirks, sporrans and brogues.
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He was a lantern-jawed, sallow-faced, high-browed fellow in his prime, with the merest hint of a hirple or halt in his walk, very shabby in his dress, wearing no sporran, but with a dagger bobbing about at his groin.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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I ended up buying the kilt itself, a black leather sporran, some black hose, and black flashes.
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General manager Rob McSporran said the company dubbed the trowel "iPood!" and registered it as a trademark in Australia in October 2006.
The Age News Headlines
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When Baker met the king of Buganda, he appeared in full Highland dress: kilt, sporran and Glengarry bonnet all complete in the heart of Africa.
To the Source
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Thought to have originated in the 16th century, the sporran was a purse originally made for carrying food such as oats.
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A sporran on its own is about $200, for instance.
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Still, she's insistent that the sporran is a unisex accessory.
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Was it an apparition, or was that under the kummerbund a bit of kilt and an end of sporran?
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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He was about to place it in his sporran when a shot crashed through the darkness, hitting the body beside him.
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The sporran cost me £10 from a shop near Edinburgh Castle.
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Unlike in Francophone Canada at the weekend, the crowd was warmly welcoming, with screams and whoops drowning out the obligatory - in this part of the world - Scottish pipe band, all dressed in kilts, sporrans and glengarries.
William and Kate presented with diamonds in Yellowknife
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Inconspicuously dressed in a kilt, sporran, dagger, and ‘black mask of Osiris’, Crowley crept down the suburban road from Olympia and bamboozled his way into the sacred vaults.
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What of the sporran, the little leather pouch worn with the plaid?
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Willie McSporran is chairman of the community council, although he is at pains to point out that this does not make his opinion more important than anyone else's.
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Mr Dunglass headed towards it now, groping in his sporran for a large iron key.
SANDS OF TIME
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The enthusiasts turn up in kilts and sporrans.
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The shop window display of kilts, sporrans and skean-dhu daggers proclaimed that here was a York shop for York people.
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Clothing was generally confined to a kind of sporran, elaborately patterned with symbols, to leave glands and mahogany fur available for signals.
The Earth Book of Stormgate
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Now Shanet wad ill like to live in a place where polish, and sheriffs, and bailiffs, and sie thieves and trash of the world, could tak puir shentlemen by the throat, just because they wanted a wheen dollars in the sporran.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Farmer Peter MacSporran has proved more resilient even than the crops he has managed to grow under the blazing African sun.
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That "sporran" was really a kind of movable curtain or screen; and beneath it, Bowman was quite sure, would be the mouth, handily placed at the entrance to the stomach.
Tin
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A stark-naked savage this, and devoid of all adornment excepting a waist-belt of plaited grass and a "sporran" of similar material.
Spinifex and Sand
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Passing each one, he fingered their kilts and sporrans until he reached Sergeant Thomas Campbell and grew more inquisitive.
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The choir would have looked so good in kilts and sporrans.
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Vaughan 6 Had a torrid first half against McSporran and was continually outpaced, but fought back well.
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Too bad it replaced the already existing "sporran", which describes exactly the same kind of thing.
Languagehat.com: PSEUDOENGLISCH.
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But it now seems that the news of a new director has calmed the ruffled kilts and sporrans, and there is peace in the glens once more.
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Meanwhile, dig out your sporrans, because the Taps is celebrating St Andrew's Day in full Scottish style on November 30.
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In proper Scottish fashion, the Knight is bare beneath his sporran and stripes.
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Iain was dressed in his traditional dress: a white dress shirt, a kilt, sporran, and plaid.
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After opening the centre, it will launch what it claims is the first Highland clothing label encompassing kilts, sporrans, jackets, and shoes.
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Jamie had a few handfuls of oats in a small bag in his sporran, and forced me to eat drammach-oats mixed with cold water.
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