1. A vegetable garden, especially one attached to a cottage or small house; a kitchen garden.
Usage: chiefly Scottish; also spelled 'kaleyard'
2. A genre of Scottish literature featuring sentimental or nostalgic depictions of rural Scottish life and village communities.
Usage: literary; often used attributively (e.g., 'kailyard fiction')

Examples

• The cottage had a small kailyard where the family grew turnips and cabbage.
• She spent her mornings tending the kailyard behind the house.
• Kailyard literature often romanticized the simplicity of Scottish village life.
• The kailyard school of writers became popular in late 19th-century Scotland.
• He planted potatoes and kale in the family kailyard each spring.