ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Plaiden

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Plaiden is a noun meaning (Scotland) A coarse, woollen cloth.

Meaning

(Scotland) A coarse, woollen cloth.

Example Sentences

It is miserably poor, and much out of the way, and produces no better commodities than plaiden webs, green kale, and handsome lads and lasses.
To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include plaid, plaiding, sett, kelt, paisley, kilt.

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