glen plaid


glen plaid

n. Any of various textile patterns consisting of alternating dark and light threads that cross at right angles and are sometimes interwoven with a brightly colored accent thread.
[Short for Glen Urquhart plaid, after Glen Urquhart, valley in north-central Scotland, part of an estate belonging to the Earls of Seafield, who adopted such a pattern for the tweed of the estate in the 1840s.]

Glen′ plaid′


n. 1. a plaid pattern of muted colors or of black or gray and white, esp. one in which groups of both light and dark stripes alternate. 2. a fabric having such a pattern. 3. a garment made of such a fabric. [1925–30; orig. Glenurquhart (or Glen Urquhart) plaid (check, tweed, etc.), after a valley of that name in Invernesshire, Scotland]