Plaid
[plæd]
Definition
(n.) A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
(n.) Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.
(a.) Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.
Inputed by Logan
Definition
n. a loose outer garment of woollen cloth often of a tartan or coloured striped pattern a special dress of the Highlanders of Scotland.—adj. like a plaid in pattern or colours.—adj. Plaid′ed wearing a plaid: made of plaid cloth.—n. Plaid′ing a strong woollen twilled fabric.
Typed by Ernestine
Examples
- No, no,' rejoined Bob, 'I'm a kind of plaid at present; a compound of all sorts of colours. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It seemed to me to be something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large, rough, double-breasted waistcoat; out of doors, he carried a thick stick with a big top. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I will put my plaid over it, and it will be a regular forest throne. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Emily