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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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BLAIR, n.².  A plain, battlefield. Rare and liter., and phs. adapted from the place-name usage as in Blair Atholl, Blairgowrie.Abd. 1895 Sc. N. & Q. (Ser. 1) IX. 47:
They hunted us and dunted us And chased us here and there Till sixteen hundred o' our men Lay gasping on the blair.

[Gael. blàr, id.]