Plural of caird; multiple traveling tinkers, beggars, or vagrants, particularly in Scottish dialect.
From caird with the standard English plural '-s'. Scots dialect often used this term to refer collectively to the nomadic groups that traveled the Scottish Highlands and Lowlands.
In old Scottish literature, descriptions of 'cairds' gathering tell us stories about traveling communities and how settled societies viewed outsiders—language captures prejudices that history books might ignore!
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