chaumer


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chaumer

(ˈtʃɔːmə)
n
1. obsolete Northeast Scot the living quarters used by farm workers. Also called: bothy
2. a chamber
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Hall in his 1985 study of bothy ballads noted: 'Some North-East songs mirror the community they come from and give very direct expression to its social concerns.' (5) During this period of agricultural development male farm workers would be boarded on the farms--either in rooms adjoining the house or over the stables, known as 'chaumers', which was the norm for Aberdeenshire; or, on bigger farms, in separate stone-built outbuildings or bunkhouses called 'bothies', which were commonly found in Angus and Moray.
Competing with ballads (and whisky?): the construction, celebration, and commercialization of North-East Scottish identity
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