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Discount homeware and clothing retailer, went into administration 2006, some shops were purchased by new chain Store Twenty One [7] The Big Label 2009 5 Formerly QS Discount, owned by QS Stores; owned five shops in Blackburn, Sale, Atherton, Warrington and Chorley: CDS Superstores 1989 Chris Dawson: Discount chain rebranded as The Range ...
This category has only the following subcategory. A. Artillery of Scotland (1 P) Pages in category "Weapons of Scotland" ... Scottish broadsword; C. Claymore; D ...
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
This category describes traditional and historic clothing from Scotland. Modern Scottish clothing should be categorised under Scottish fashion or Clothing companies ...
M&Co Trading Limited, trading as M&Co.) is a Scottish online retailer and former high street chain store selling women's, men's, and children's clothes, as well as small homeware products. Its head office is in Inchinnan, Scotland, [4] though its main buying office is in London. [3] [5] Previously, its head office was at Caledonia House in ...
USC is a clothing retailer that sells branded clothing across the United Kingdom and Ireland. The company was founded in 1989 in Edinburgh and has been owned by the Frasers Group since 2011. As of January 2025, the company owns stores in the United Kingdom , Ireland , Spain , Portugal , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Belgium , Czech Republic ...
The Scottish name "claymore" (Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh mór, lit. "large/great sword") [17] [18] can refer to either the longsword with a distinctive two-handed grip, or the basket-hilted sword. [citation needed] The two-handed claymore is an early Scottish version of a greatsword.
By the 17th century there were regional variations of basket-hilts: the Walloon hilt, the Sinclair hilt, schiavona, mortuary sword, Scottish broadsword, and some types of eastern European pallasches. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 6 ] The mortuary and claybeg variants were commonly used in the British isles, whether domestically produced or acquired through ...