tartan
noun
a woolen or worsted cloth woven with stripes of different colors and widths crossing at right angles, worn chiefly by the Scottish Highlanders, each clan having its own distinctive plaid.
tartaned
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a word derived from
tartan.
Example Sentences
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This immensely fun albeit odd gathering of tartaned, saltired, bannered, Yes-stickered folks, is like some distant aspirant third cousin three times removed of Tahrir in Cairo or the Maidan in Kiev.
From Newsweek
The white socks, the Mary Janes, the always-inadequate birthday present swathed in tissue paper, and the little girls with their assessing eyes, their slippery deceitful smiles, tartaned up like Lady Macbeth.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
Previously, I’d always walked to Trombley Elementary; but prep school has brought with it a host of changes: my new school uniform, for instance, crested and tartaned.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Or did the tartaned stranger call thee where Mount Cashel's Lord rules o'er a fair domain?
From Verses and Rhymes By the Way by Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall
Poor Panther, doubtless he now rests with his fathers, rests under the shadow of some of the mighty mountains, the tartaned hills, over which he and I used to wander in pursuit of game.
From Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables
