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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

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

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

But there came a dash of maddened horses and their riders and a leaping stream of tartaned men.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

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 Stables, Gordon