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(transitive) To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan..
Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.
Use tartanize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Tartanize means (transitive) To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan..
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Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.
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