: scottish
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The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
Kate is the honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards, who are leading the charge in this year's celebration (only one flag can be presented at a time, so the five regiments of the Foot Guards — Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh — rotate who holds the honor annually).
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 June 2024
This time, the focus was on a 1955 collection that Christian Dior showed at Gleneagles, as well as on the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her passion for embroidery and its semiology.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 June 2024
There was also an immaculate English sparkling wine, going some way to proving that even the English and the Scots will put aside their differences in pursuit of a good drink.
—Jamie Timson, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 Mar. 2024
In this book, a distinguished Scottish historian offers a vivid, if perhaps overly detailed, account of the remarkable successes Scots have enjoyed through the centuries in science, literature, art, business, and soldiering.
—Murray Pittock, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
The Scots can clinch the outright title with a win at home over Burlingame on Thursday.
—Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
But the Scots were without their No. 1 player Saturday.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Wallace, who served as a captain in the Scots Guards, was once seen as Tory leader material, too.
—Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
Noun
Mary, Queen of Scots, has been imprisoned by rebels and forced to leave her son, the future King James, with her enemies.
—The New Yorker, 12 June 2024
Kate is the honorary Colonel of the Irish Guards, who are leading the charge in this year's celebration (only one flag can be presented at a time, so the five regiments of the Foot Guards — Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh — rotate who holds the honor annually).
—Stephanie Petit, Peoplemag, 8 June 2024
This time, the focus was on a 1955 collection that Christian Dior showed at Gleneagles, as well as on the history of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her passion for embroidery and its semiology.
—Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 7 June 2024
There was also an immaculate English sparkling wine, going some way to proving that even the English and the Scots will put aside their differences in pursuit of a good drink.
—Jamie Timson, The Week Uk, theweek, 22 Mar. 2024
In this book, a distinguished Scottish historian offers a vivid, if perhaps overly detailed, account of the remarkable successes Scots have enjoyed through the centuries in science, literature, art, business, and soldiering.
—Murray Pittock, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023
The Scots can clinch the outright title with a win at home over Burlingame on Thursday.
—Darren Sabedra, The Mercury News, 7 May 2024
But the Scots were without their No. 1 player Saturday.
—Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024
Wallace, who served as a captain in the Scots Guards, was once seen as Tory leader material, too.
—Mark Landler, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2023
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“Scots.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Scots. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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Scots
1 of 2 adjectiveScots
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: the English language of Scotland
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