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plaid

P0345100 (plăd)n.1. a. Cloth, often made of wool, with a tartan or checked pattern.b. A pattern of this kind.2. A rectangular woolen scarf of a tartan pattern worn over the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

[Probably Scots plaid, plyd, past participle of ply, to fold, from Middle English plien; see ply¹.]

plaid, plaid′ed adj.

plaid

(plæd; pleɪd) n1. (Clothing & Fashion) a long piece of cloth of a tartan pattern, worn over the shoulder as part of Highland costume2. (Textiles) a. a crisscross weave or clothb. (as modifier): a plaid scarf. [C16: from Scottish Gaelic plaide, of obscure origin]

plaid

(plæd)

n. 1. any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a cross-barred pattern. 2. a pattern of this kind. 3. a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usu. with such a pattern and worn across the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders. adj. 4. having the pattern of a plaid. Compare tartan.[1505–15; < Scottish Gaelic plaide blanket, plaid (definition 3)]

Thesaurus

Noun

plaid - a cloth having a crisscross design tartancloth, fabric, textile, material - artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers; "the fabric in the curtains was light and semitransparent"; "woven cloth originated in Mesopotamia around 5000 BC"; "she measured off enough material for a dress"

Translations

καρόgrande sciarpa di lana a quadriplaidtessuto scozzese

plaid

plaid,

a long shawl or blanketlike outer wrap of woolen cloth, usually patterned in checks or tartan figures. Now a distinctive feature of the Highland costume, it was formerly worn in all parts of Scotland and in N England by both men and women. The early Celtic people excelled in dyeing and in Roman times wore gay, many-colored, checkered plaids, woven or sewed together in squares of different colors. Through the Middle Ages and until the 18th cent. the people of North Britain belted their plaids about them, the lower part forming the kilt, the upper part the cloak. A shepherd's plaid is of black-and-white check. A tartan plaid has crossbars of three or more colors combined in designs distinctive of the different Highland clans and serving a heraldic purpose. In modern usage plaid may signify merely pattern, as a plaid gingham.

Bibliography

See C. Hesketh, Tartans (1961); I. Grimble, Scottish Clans and Tartans (1982).

Plaid

A pattern created by regularly spaced bands at right angles to one another; the resultant checkered effects vary widely, depending on the relationship and intervals between lines and bands.

plaid

a. a crisscross weave or cloth b. (as modifier): a plaid scarf
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noun a cloth having a crisscross design

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