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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various textile patterns consisting of alternating dark and light threads that cross at right angles and are sometimes interwoven with a brightly colored accent thread.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Short for Glen Urquhart plaid, after Glen Urquhart, valley in north-central Scotland, part of an estate belonging to the Earls of Seafield, who adopted such a pattern for the tweed of the estate in the 1840s.]
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