| 单词 | shepherds' tartan |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshepherds' tartan a. A kind of woollen cloth woven in stripes of various colours crossing at right angles so as to form a regular pattern; worn chiefly by the Scottish Highlanders, each clan having generally its distinctive pattern; often preceded by a clan-name, etc. denoting a particular traditional or authorized design. Also, the pattern or design of such cloth, and applied to silk and other fabrics having a similar pattern. shepherds' tartan, shepherds' plaid: see quot. 1882. In quot. 1810 plural tartan garments. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > tartan tartan?a1500 plaid1510 plaiding1548 tartana1721 the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun] > tartan plaid1845 tartan1855 plaiding1889 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > tartan > pattern of set1721 tartan1855 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > checked > specific pulicat1768 tartan1891 Tattersall1891 houndstooth1959 ?a1500 Symmye & Bruder 22 in Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry (1802) I. 360 Syne schupe thame up, to lowp owr leiss, Twa tabartis of the tartane. 1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 79 For fresing of ane tartane galcot. 1533 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 80 Ane uthir tartane galcoit gevin to the King be the Maister Forbes. 1538 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 436 Item, for iij elnis of heland tertane to be hois to the Kingis grace, price of the elne iiij s. iiij d. 1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 236 Item, ane vob of tartane, contenand x ellis, the price of ell iiij s. 1546 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 236 Ane blankat of tartane. 1548–51 Aberdeen Regr. XX. (Jam.) Ane gelcoit of quhit tertane. 1630 J. Taylor Pennyles Pilgrimage in All Wks. i. 135/1 Stockings (which they call short hose) made of a warme stuffe of diuers colours, which they call Tartane. 1803 Gazetteer Scotl. at Ninians (St.) Of late, the greater part of the tartan for the army has been manufactured in this parish. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 134 Their feathers dance, their tartans float,..A wild and warlike groupe they stand. 1822 D. Stewart Sketches Highlanders Scotl. I. iii. i. 229 The pipers wore a red tartan of very bright colours, (of the pattern known by the name of the Stewart tartan). 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiii. 354 Men wearing the same tartan, and attached to the same lord, were arrayed against each other. 1862 J. Skelton Nugæ Criticæ vi. 239 Dressed in a bodice and kirtle of shepherd tartan. 1882 Ogilvie's Imperial Dict. (new ed.) Shepherd's..tartan, a kind of small check pattern in cloth, woven with black and white warp and weft; (b) a kind of cloth..woven in this pattern—generally made into shepherd's plaids. 1891 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) Silk tartan, a silk material for women's dresses and men's waistcoats, woven in the style of the Scottish clan tartans. 1897 Private Life of Queen xxv. 209 The writing-room is hung entirely with the Balmoral tartan. 1905 Times 7 Sept. 5/4 Considerable success has followed the bringing out of quite a variety of tartans for next spring. 1906 Athenæum 2 June 671/2 The whole question of the date of clan tartans is difficult. 1949 ‘J. Tey’ Brat Farrar xiii. 114 A frayed Stewart tartan ribbon off a box of Edinburgh rock. 1981 Times 3 Feb. 17/6 Streaming from her helmet were two lengths of Colquhoun tartan from the clan of which her father was chief. < as lemmas |
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