a textile design of Scottish origin consisting of checks and stripes of varying width and colour, usu patterned to designate a particular clan
any of a large number of textile designs of Scottish origin consisting of checks and stripes of varying width and colour, usu patterned to designate a particular clan
(used before a noun) having a design of this kind
tartan ribbons
a fabric, esp a twilled woollen cloth, with a tartan design
clothing of tartan
[prob from early French tiretaine linsey-woolsey, ultimately from medieval Latin tyrius cloth from Tyre, port in Lebanon, formerly a centre of Phoenician trade]