bonnet laird造句

• These included yeomen, later characterised by Walter Scott as " bonnet lairds ", often owning substantial land.
• The Lands of Borland were apparently held for many years by what might be best described as'Bonnet Lairds', named from petty landowners who wore a hat or bonnet like the humble working labourers.
• Surnames were assumed from places as well as professions, and within a strict historical context all that can be concluded at this time is that people descending'of'Calderwood, either retainers or bonnet lairds within the lairdship, and perhaps many unrelated persons, adopted this surname at an early period.