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SPORRAN (Gaelic sporan, purse, pouch)

This article appears in Volume V25, Page 735 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SOU-STE
SPORRAN (Gaelic sporan, purse, pouch) , a pouch which is worn, in Highland costume,
hanging
  from the
belt
  over the front of the
kilt
 . The older sporrans were quite modest
objects
  and ordinarily of
leather
 ; in
modern
  Highland costume and in the uniform of Highland kilted regiments it has become a highly ornamental adjunct, with silver or metal rims, and a heavy
long
  backing of horsehair or fur.


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