tartan
/tɑːtən/ · noun
Meaning
- 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.
- The pattern associated with such material.
- An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
- Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
- To clothe in tartan.
- Having a pattern like a tartan.
- Scottish.
- A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
- A kind of long covered carriage.
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