tartan

IPA: tˈɑrtʌn

A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.
The pattern associated with such material.
An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
A type of one-masted lateen-sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean.
(historical) A kind of long covered carriage.
The commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria.

Examples of "tartan" in Sentences

He spent many an hour playing WoW, dressed in tartan flannel.
And they're available in tartan, paisley and geometric patterns in a variety of colours.
His tartan was a brilliant crimson and black that blazed among the more sedate MacKenzies in their green and white.
How can the voter distinguish between three identical headless chickens, especially when they are all dressed in tartan.
The ring-leader is a buff, shirtless fellow in tartan punk-pants who calls himself (and I am NOT making this up) "Funktastic."
It is composed of a long antenna, like the yard of a tartan, which is supported in see-saw fashion on an upright beam, and carries at its extremity a wooden bucket.
“I will wager on Old Nick, of whom I should know something, he being indeed a worker in the same element with myself, against Catharine on that debate: the devil will have the tartan, that is sure enough.”
The consciousness that his tartan was the subject of discussion made the Jew give way to such vehement ejaculations of anxiety, that Servadac turned round and peremptorily ordered him to desist from his clamor.