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Answer for the clue "Scottish castle ", 8 letters:
balmoral

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Word definitions for balmoral in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a sturdy laced walking shoe a brimless dark blue Scottish cap with a flat top and a plume on one side [syn: bluebonnet ]

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Balmoral \Bal*mor"al\, n. [From Balmoral Castle, in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.] A long woolen petticoat, worn immediately under the dress. A kind of stout walking shoe, laced in front. A man who uses his balmorals to tread on your toes. --George Eliot.

Usage examples of balmoral.

Chapter i the gardens of Balmoral in the middle of August displayed as much glory as the devoted skill of the gardeners could achieve in the short-lived Scottish summer.

Aberknowe was one of several substantial granite houses on the Balmoral land which were occupied by the estate managers.

A groom led the ponies and the two nursemaids formed a chattering rear guard The road Richard chose sloped gently down towards the river, levelling out where the Balmoral bank sloped steeply down to the waterside.

Richard chose to stay with his grandmother at Birkhall, her house on the Balmoral estate nestling between sloping woods of birch and pine and its own concave garden hedged with yew.

There were no regulations to prevent people from walking up the Balmoral side of the mountain when the Queen was not staying at the castle, and Richard had chosen a long ascent from the Balmoral side for the sake of privacy.

Afterwards he would join his father and brothers on the royal yacht, then go on to Balmoral, where Victoria would join him again for a week, and then they would go back to Cambridge.

Phil Addams refused to pay for him to follow them to Balmoral, and sent a local boy instead.

At Christmas a French magazine snatched a picture of Victoria looking gaunt and vacant as she went to church with her family at Aston Langley, and contrasted it with the happy picture of them both at Balmoral in the summer, but the British newspapers paid little attention.

When he returned to Balmoral he felt as if he himself were flat and one-dimensional like a photograph.

The family travelled to Balmoral a few days later and the clear air and dramatic landscape began to work their healing magic.

Carol Ashton and Sybil Quade at the wedding of Patricia James and Marcus Bourke at Balmoral Beach and afterwards at the Bathers Pavilion Restaurant at the same location.

Cindy muttered as she waited for the light at the corner of Balmoral and Avenue Road to change.

It seemed that even in her absence, Julia had taken up a disproportionate amount of space in the house on Balmoral Avenue.

Footage: Cindy, in the bedroom of the house on Balmoral Avenue,the month before Tom packs his bags and moves out.

Cindy muttered, racing back down Balmoral toward her house, hearing Elvis barking all the way down the street.