Usually means: Scottish landowner, typically of modest means.
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Definitions from Wiktionary (bonnet laird)

▸ noun:  (Scotland, historical) A petty landowner who wore a bonnet, not the hat of the gentry.

Similar:
laird, lairdship, lairdess, laddock, cocklaird, Lothian, lowlander, bailie, bardie, leven, more...

Opposite:
laird bonnet, commoner, peasant, serf

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Similar:
laird, lairdship, lairdess, laddock, cocklaird, Lothian, lowlander, bailie, bardie, leven, more...

Opposite:
laird bonnet, commoner, peasant, serf



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