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Tartan
/tɑːtən/
A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
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noun
- 1
A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
- 2
The pattern associated with such material.
- 3
An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
- 4
Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
verb
- 1
To clothe in tartan.
adjective
- 1
Having a pattern like a tartan.
- 2
Scottish.
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