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mak⋅ar

  [mah-ker]
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–noun Chiefly Scot.
a poet or writer.
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mak·ar   (mä'kər, mā'-)   
n.   Chiefly Scots
A poet.

[Middle English, variant of maker, maker, poet.]
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makar

any of the Scottish courtly poets who flourished from about 1425 to 1550. The best known are Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, Gavin Douglas, and Sir David Lyndsay; the group is sometimes expanded to include James I of Scotland and Harry the Minstrel, or Blind Harry.

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