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clachan

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clachan (Gaelic) [ˈklaxən (English) ˈklæ-]
n
(Social Science / Human Geography) Scot and Irish dialect a small village; hamlet
[from Scottish Gaelic: probably from clach stone]
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So when it comes dark again, I will steal down into that clachan, and set this that I have been making in the window of a good friend of mine, John Breck Maccoll, a bouman[26] of Appin's.
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