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▪ I. plaid|pleɪd, plæd|
Also 6 plyd, playde, pladde, 6–8 plad, 7 pleid, 8 plaide, (pladd), 8 (dial. 9) plod.
[The same word as Gael. plaide, Ir. ploid blanket; ulterior etymology uncertain.
The quots. clearly bespeak a Scottish origin, and even in the 16th c. associate the plaid with the Highlands; but the want of early evidence for the word in Celtic leaves it doubtful whether the name originated in Gaelic or Lowland Sc. Gaelic etymologists suggest derivation from peall sheep-skin, ad. L. pell-is, but this is phonetically improbable. The Sc. spelling plaid is now usual, although the word is very generally pronounced plad in England.]
1. A long piece of twilled woollen cloth, usually having a chequered or tartan pattern, forming the outer article of the Highland costume, and formerly worn in all parts of Scotland and the north of England, in cold or stormy weather, instead of a cloak or mantle. The Lowland ‘shepherd's plaid’, of a black chequer pattern on white, is commonly called a maud.
1512Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 203 Item, the vj day of Maij, in Air, for ane plaid to be the King ane coit. 1538Ibid. VI. 443 For xxv. elnes bertane canwes to be pladis to the quenis hors. 1558Aberdeen Regr. (1844) I. 309 For the wrangous reiffing and away taking fra hir of ane plyd, ane pettioitt, twa curclus, ane collar [etc.]. 1563Randolph Let. to Cecil 13 June in Calr. Sc. Pap. II. 13 A safferon shyrte or a Hylande pladde. 1578Reg. Privy Council Scot. III. 89 A plaid or blankat to keip the saidis bairnis fra cauld. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Trophies 1050 And I my Self with my pyde Pleid a-slope. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 325 They [inhabitants of Java] gird them with a parti-coloured plad or mantle. 1643in Row Hist. Kirk (Wodrow Soc.) p. xxiii, I dischargit wemen to cover thair headis withe thair plaidis in tyme cuming in the kirk. 1662Evelyn Diary 3 Oct., Painted..as..a Scotch highlander in his plaid. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 267 A mantle..thrown about him like a Scotsman's plaid. 1771Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1769, 162 Their brechan, or plaid, consists of twelve or thirteen yards of a narrow stuff, wrapt round the middle, and reaches to the knees. 1774J. Collyer Hist. Eng. I. 20 The tartan plads of Scotland. 1807Byron Lachin y Gair ii, My cap was the bonnet, my coak was the plaid [rime glade]. Note. This word is erroneously pronounced plad: the proper pronunciation (according to the Scotch) is shown by the orthography. 1874Princess Alice in Mem. (1884) 325 Will you tell her, the plaid she made me still goes everywhere with me.
2. The woollen cloth of which plaids are made; later, applied to other fabrics with a tartan pattern.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 146 They weare a smocke couloured like our Scottish plad. Ibid. 187 About their middles, they have a cloth of particoloured plad, like that with us in England. 1724De Foe Mem. Cavalier ii. 156 Their [the Highlanders'] Doublet, Breeches and Stockings, of a Stuff they called Plaid, striped a-cross red and yellow. 1783W. F. Martyn Geog. Mag. II. 413 Their waistcoats are also made of plaid. 1893G. Hill Hist. Eng. Dress II. 267 Plaids..were made in large and small checks, in woollen cloth, in Irish poplin.
3. A plaid or tartan pattern; a pattern of bars or stripes crossing each other at right angles. rare.
1890in Cent. Dict.
4. transf. A man wearing a plaid; a Highlander.
1814Scott Wav. lxii, He was hanged at Stirling..with his lieutenant, and four plaids besides. Ibid. lx.
5. attrib. and Comb., as plaid cloak, plaid-fold, plaid shawl, plaid trousers; plaid-patterned, plaid-wrapped adjs.; plaid bed, a bed draped with plaid or tartan (fashionable in England early in 18th c.); plaidman, a Highlander; plaid-nook (-neuk) Sc., one end of the folded plaid sewn up so as to form a large pouch or pocket.
c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 297 A *pladd bed Lined wth Indian Callicoe.
1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 275 In a few moments, his *plaid cloak was cut into numerous strips.
1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. xviii, Do not my *plaid-folds hold thee warm?
1814― Wav. lx, O!..I thought it was Ned Williams, and it is one of the *plaidmen.
a1600in Montgomerie's Poems (S.T.S.) 281/18 ‘Humff!’ quod the Helandman, and turned him abowt, And at his *plaid nuk the guly fell owt. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped i. 6 A little Bible, to carry in a plaid-neuk.
1875W. S. Hayward Love agst. World 54 Get me my *plaid shawl and a plain dark bonnet.
1837Dickens Pickw. xxx, He wore a pair of *plaid trousers, and a large rough double-breasted waistcoat.
1897Crockett Lad's Love xxiii, For all that the *plaid-wrapped girl knew or cared.
▪ II. plaid
ME. f. plea; obs. pa. tense and pple. of play. |