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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tartan.

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Examples

  • But there came a dash of maddened horses and their riders and a leaping stream of tartaned men.

    Foes Mary Johnston 1903

  • From the Highlands and the Lowlands they came, from island and mainland flocked the kilted and tartaned

    Historical Tales, Vol. 4 (of 15) The Romance of Reality Charles Morris 1877

  • Previously, I’d always walked to Trombley Elementary; but prep school has brought with it a host of changes: my new school uniform, for instance, crested and tartaned.

    Middlesex Eugenides, Jeffery 2002

  • 19.35 Ian Poulter is all tartaned up for Sunday's final round and hits a nice second on the par 5 second.

    RT? News 2010

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