tartan
IPA: tˈɑrtʌn
noun
- 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.
verb
- (transitive) To clothe in tartan.
adjective
- Having a pattern like a tartan.
- (humorous) Scottish.
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Examples of "tartan" in Sentences
- They even shared the same tartan.
- Royal patronage and the tartan craze.
- Here's the info on the isconsin tartan.
- Certainly it's a tartan and not a check.
- The pattern of a tartan is called a sett.
- It usually matches the tartan of the kilt.
- The point is to wear an appropriate tartan.
- This tartan is the official tartan of the SRU.
- The regimental tartan is the Government Tartan.
- The tartan IS known as the Northumbrian tartan.
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