Auld Alliance

English

Etymology

From the Scots for old + alliance.

Proper noun

the Auld Alliance

  1. (historical) The old alliance between Scotland and France against England.
    • 1894, Andrew Lang, Ban and Arrière Ban: A Rally of Fugitive Rhymes, A Scot to Jeanne D'Arc, page 1, lines 3–4:
      […] Whose sires were to the Auld Alliance true, / They, by the Maiden's side, […]
    • 1897, William Allan Neilson, “The Original of "The Complaynt of Scotlande"”, in The Journal of Germanic Philology, volume 1, number 4, →JSTOR, page 412:
      In any case, whatever the importance of such details, the relation of the two books is a further evidence of the literary side of the ‘auld alliance’.
    • 1955, David Maxwell Walker, “Some Characteristics of Scots Law”, in The Modern Law Review, volume 18, number 4, →JSTOR, page 326:
      Whether it is a consequence of the Auld Alliance between Scotland and France or not, the French comparative lawyers have always been conspicuously more appreciative of the virtues of Scots law than have English scholars and judges […]
    • 2021 July 22, Jacob Rees-Mogg, “Business of the House”, in parliamentary debates (House of Commons)‎[1], column 1162:
      Therefore, if the French have decided that they wish to be difficult, which is not an unprecedented habit of the French, then that is a matter that the hon. Gentleman should take up with the auld alliance.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Auld Alliance.
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