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Highlandism
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English
Etymology
From en Highland ism.
Noun
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The culture and practices of the Scottish Highlands.
en 2003 Celeste Ray Southern Heritage on Display 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”
en 1999 Anne Buttimer; L. Wallin Nature and Identity in Cross-Cultural Perspective 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.