Plaid

Quick meaning: Plaid is a noun meaning (textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

Meaning

(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

More Meanings

1. The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.
2. Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.
3. A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
4. (archaic) simple past and past participle of play

Example Sentences

1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134, "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."

In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach’) to preserve modesty.

It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

Word Forms

• plaids

Synonyms for plaid

Depending on context, synonyms include tartan.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tartan, belted, scot, scots, played, plaiden.

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