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plaid

clockwise from top left: Malcolm, Gordon Dress, and Stewart Dress plaid patterns

plaid

(plăd)

a. Cloth, often made of wool, with a tartan or checked pattern.

b. A pattern of this kind.

2. A rectangular woolen scarf of a tartan pattern worn over the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

[Probably Scots plaid, plyd, past participle of ply, to fold, from Middle English plien; see ply¹.]

plaid, plaid′ed adj.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

plaid

(plæd; pleɪd)

1. (Clothing & Fashion) a long piece of cloth of a tartan pattern, worn over the shoulder as part of Highland costume

2. (Textiles)

a. a crisscross weave or cloth

b. (as modifier): a plaid scarf.

[C16: from Scottish Gaelic plaide, of obscure origin]

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

plaid

(plæd)

n.

1. any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a cross-barred pattern.

2. a pattern of this kind.

3. a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usu. with such a pattern and worn across the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

adj.

4. having the pattern of a plaid.

Compare tartan.

[1505–15; < Scottish Gaelic plaide blanket, plaid (definition 3)]

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Noun

plaid - a cloth having a crisscross design

tartan

cloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

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grande sciarpa di lana a quadri plaid tessuto scozzese

plaid

[plæd]

A. N (= cloth) → tela f escocesa or a cuadros; (= cloak) → manta f escocesa, plaid m

B. CPD [skirt, trousers, shirt] → escocés

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

plaid

[ˈplæd ˈpleɪd]

(= material) → tissu m écossais

(= pattern) → motif m écossais

(= tartan worn over the shoulder) → plaid m

modif [shirt, jacket] → à carreaux
a plaid shirt → une chemise écossaise, une chemise à carreaux

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

plaid

n → Plaid nt; plaid skirt → karierter Rock

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

plaid

[plæd] n (material) → tessuto scozzese; (cloak) → plaid m inv
a plaid shirt → una camicia scozzese

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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He had about him, he says, a trusty plaid; an old and valued travelling companion and comforter; upon which the rains had descended, and the snows and winds beaten, without further effect than somewhat to tarnish its primitive lustre.

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His boots were, on a small scale, the boots of a ploughman, while his legs, so crossed and recrossed with scratches that they looked like maps, were bare below a very short pair of plaid drawers finished off with two frills of perfectly different patterns.

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In the afternoon Lord George came forth again, dressed in a black velvet coat, and trousers and waistcoat of the Gordon plaid, all of the same Quaker cut; and in this costume, which made him look a dozen times more strange and singular than before, went down on foot to Westminster.

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A soldier, roused by the noise, unrolled his plaid, and looked up to see what was going forward.

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I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which the frosty wind fluttered, gathered close about her, and encouraging us, by precept and example, to keep up our spirits, and march forward, as she said, "like stalwart soldiers." The other teachers, poor things, were generally themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.

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A stormy evening of olive and silver was closing in, as Father Brown, wrapped in a grey Scotch plaid, came to the end of a grey Scotch valley and beheld the strange castle of Glengyle.

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He touched the brim of the old plaid bicycle cap perched on the back of his head.

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On the left of his great leader sat the poetic Snodgrass, and near him again the sporting Winkle; the former poetically enveloped in a mysterious blue cloak with a canine-skin collar, and the latter communicating additional lustre to a new green shooting-coat, plaid neckerchief, and closely-fitted drabs.

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She looked demure and pretty, and made a graceful picture in her blue cashmere dress and little blue hat, with a plaid shawl drawn neatly about her shoulders and a clumsy pocket-book in her hand.

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Robinson's red plaid shawl, and Deacon Milliken's wig, on crooked, the bare benches and torn hymn-books, the hanging texts and maps, were no longer visible, and she saw blue skies and burning stars, white turbans and gay colors; Mr.

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"Unless the little man in the plaid mackintosh poured it into the coffee with the milk," she said, "I could not possibly have imbibed it, for I haven't spoken to another soul since we left."

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It consisted of a brown body-coat with a great many brass buttons up the front and only one behind, a bright check neckerchief, a plaid waistcoat, soiled white trousers, and a very limp hat, worn with the wrong side foremost, to hide a hole in the brim.

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