plaid
68
2.9
- noun
- /plæd/
:
tartán
- I do look good in a tartan plaid, right?
- plaid shirt
- plaid skirt
- plaid jacket
This is super cute and I love, I love some of the darker Plaid or I love plaids.
- This is super cute and I love, I love some of the darker Plaid or I love plaids.
- And they're like kind of Plaid Plaid like the shirts with the patterns on.
- Some bad, some rad, some sad, some Plaid.
Examples
-
The women wear plaid skirts and cable-knit sweaters.
-
The other man was younger, wearing a plaid shirt and jacket.
Fiction book (1991) -
But I love this sort of Buffalo Plaid, very cute, very full.
-
We were those little girls at school with the plaid skirts.
-
The man, in a plaid jacket and gray trousers, was seated between the women.
Fiction book (1992) -
But Scarlett was very pleased to be wearing her green and brown plaid traveling costume.
Fiction book (1991) -
Most of the men in the room wore blue jeans and boots, plaid shirts, and cowboy hats.
Fiction book (1993) -
My father, in his plaid shirt and rumpled corduroys, was watching TV.
Academic text (2001) -
My father stood in khakis and a plaid shirt by the kitchen door and drank Scotch.
Fiction book (1992) -
We were those little girls at school with the plaid skirts.
Synonyms
8
4.4
A wool cloth with colored squares and crossing lines used by Scottish families
How Patterned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Plaid comes from the Scottish Gaelic word plaide, which meant a 'blanket' or large wrap people wore. Because those blankets often had the checked tartan design, plaid later came to mean the checked 'pattern' and the cloth with that pattern.