tartan
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈtɑrtən/
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tartán
- Insects stung him, and in his Black Watch tartan, the heat made his skin itch.
- Scottish tartan
- tartan patterns
These are red and green and Navy tartan.
- These are red and green and Navy tartan.
- We've got some pretty pretty crazy wallpaper in here and a crazy tartan carpet that I absolutely love and it's staying.
- This is currently sitting on mine and Alfie's bed with a Marks and Spencer tartan bedding and I am in love.
- And it's just this tartan pleated skirt.
- So you've got Black Monday or Black Friday, you have Cyber Monday and now she's looking for old people first for a tartan blanket Wednesday.
Examples
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Carefully, Faudron pulls out a beautiful tartan scarf and replaces Wallace's tattered old one.
Fiction book (1995) -
Blond hair thick as velvet, pulled back in a tartan headband.
Fiction book (1999) -
And the bird stops him and says, "I want that one behind you, the tartan one."
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And it's my Scottish Diana tartan skirt, if I can feel it.
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I do look good in a tartan plaid, right?
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It's a black leatherette travel bag with a tartan design.
Fiction book (2000) -
And it's just this tartan pleated skirt.
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I really like the tartan look and there's like a mustard like line going through it which matches the rest of his room as well.
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It's, ah, made of the buchan tartan, Which is my clan's colors.
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The older of her two Chihuahuas, he wore a tartan sweater vest against the cold.
Synonyms
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2.9
A cloth pattern of crossed colored bands used on clothes and blankets
Compounds
How Patterned
Surface Forms
Etymology
Tartan comes from Scotland and may come from the Gaelic word breacan, which means 'speckled' or 'many-coloured'. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a checked, coloured cloth used for kilts and to show a family's pattern, which is exactly what 'tartan' means today.