plaidedadj.
/ˈpladᵻd/, U.S. /ˈplædəd/ 1. Made of plaid; having a plaid or plaid-like pattern or design.
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [adjective] > tartan
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [adjective] > patterned > checked
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1746 Adam's Weekly Courant 25 Nov. in Coll. Polit. Tracts (1747) 15 Plaided Checquer'd Gowns, &c. which virtually imply the Wearer's Approbation of the Scotch Rebellion.
1799 Times 5 Sept. 4/1 Bonnet of plaided purple and black satin.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion ii. 60 They marched In plaided vest. View more context for this quotation
1850 H. Melville White-jacket xc. 446 Though his back was cross-barred, and plaided with the ineffaceable scars of all the floggings accumulated..during a ten years' service in the Navy,..he perpetually wore a hilarious face.
1886 Peterson's Mag. Apr. 376/2 The Zouave-jacket is made of the plaided zephyr, and trimmed with the galloon.
1924 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Ireland 54 98 Of the figure we have only the lower part, covered with a plaided skirt or kilt which reaches below the knees.
1971 W. Stegner Angle of Repose (1972) i. vi. 61 There is one building—the Omaha Stock Market—plaided, my dear, in squares of red, white, and blue.
2001 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 11 Feb. e1 The man across the room in the plaided shirt and dirty work cap resembled Floyd around the nose and lips.
2. Wearing a plaid or plaids; dressed in plaid.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [adjective] > wearing clothing for body (and limbs) > wearing loose clothing > other
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1763 E. B. Greene Friendship 6 These plaided heroes, who rebellious stood, To drench their falchions in a sister's blood.
1779 W. Tasker Poems 23 The plaided troop the target wield, With thundering footsteps shake the field.
1803 T. Campbell Poems 4 Her bonneted chieftains..All plaided and plumed in their tartan array.
1821 W. Scott Pirate I. iv. 66 His neighbourhood to the Grampians exposed him..to that species of visitation from the plaided gentry who dwelt within their skirts.
a1894 R. L. Stevenson In South Seas (1896) iii. vi. 271 They swaggered in the town, like plaided Highlanders upon the streets of Inverness.
1927 Brechin Advertiser 25 Oct. 3 On a mither's back a plaidit wean, Haudin' in to life wi' a safety preen.
1997 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 27 Sept. 37 Those heather-topped rocks on which Victorian artists delighted in placing a plaided Highlander watching for the Redcoats.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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