plaid

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  1. noun A rectangular woolen scarf of a tartan pattern worn over the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.
  2. noun Cloth with a tartan or checked pattern.
  3. noun A pattern of this kind.

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  • Those two chores took her just a few minutes, but the wrapping of the plaid was another matter altogether. —  Garwood, Julie - The Bride
  • No other clan would dare touch a MacBain, so the plaid was actually better protection than chain mail. —  Garwood, Julie - Saving Grace
  • It be no use denying the truth, for your plaid was spotted by three of my men. —  Garwood, Julie - Saving Grace
  • Suppression for the plaid was evaluated by comparing the response to that for the optimal grating. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • Turns out she was standing at the other end of the store actually wearing it. bunched old timey plaid, a bit tattered and torn mostly hiding the torn fishnets underneath. —  Fashion World of SL
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  1. Scottish Gaelic plaide.

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  1. from Gaelic plaide (= Irish plaide), a blanket, plaid, contr. of pellaid, a sheepskin, from pealle, a skin, hide: see pell.
 

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