Highlandism
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Highlandism (uncountable)
- The culture and practices of the Scottish Highlands.
- 2003, Celeste Ray, Southern Heritage on Display, page 259:
- Through the romance of Highlandism, all Scots became defeated Jacobites and Highlanders. It is this image of Scottish identity that Americans of Lowland Scots, Scots-Irish, and Highland Scots ancestry alike have “reclaimed” […]
- 1999, Anne Buttimer, L. Wallin, Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective, page 276:
- By 1881, the association between militarism and Highlandism was so strong that the War Office ordered all Lowland regiments to wear tartan 'trews' and Highland-style doublets.