Kirkcaldy
Proper noun
Meaning
A town and former royal burgh in Fife council area, Scotland (OS grid ref NT2791)
A local government district in Fife Region (as it was called then) between 1975 and 1996.
Source: en.wiktionary.orgExamples
Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland, vol. 7 (1907), 18. According to 16th-century writers, his treasurer James Kirkcaldy of Grange tried to persuade James against the persecution of Protestants and to meet Henry VIII at York.
He joined academia in 1751, taught logic and moral philosophy for 14 years at Glasgow University, but in 1764, he retired to Kirkcaldy to write The Wealth of Nations.
He won races at East Fortune near Haddington, Beveridge Park in Kirkcaldy and at Knockhill near Dunfermline as well events in England with some success.
Almost 400 fans from an electorate of 900 cast their vote, and Andy, a lifelong fan from Kirkcaldy, was delighted with the outcome.
Jurors and lawyers frequently laughed as a series of punters gave evidence during a five-day trial at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in Scotland.
He lost, but in 1983 he became MP for Dunfermline East in Fife where he would serve until 2005 when he represented his former home constituency of Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath.