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Definitions of tartan in various dictionaries:
noun - a cloth having a crisscross design
Any of numerous textile patterns consisting of stripes of varying widths and colors crossed at right angles against a solid background, each forming a distinctive design worn by the members of a Scottish clan.
A twilled wool fabric or garment having such a pattern.
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| Dundee design |
| Bagpiper's wear |
| Plaid |
| Kiltie's pattern |
| Clan pattern |
| Kilt pattern |
| Highlander pattern |
| Parade pattern |
| Pattern for a 10-Across |
| Clan cloth |
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| Sometimes regarded as a family emblem, it's a distinctive fabric pattern used on plaid kilts |
| Britain's oldest known scrap of material called this, sometimes identified as shepherd's plaid, dates from 250 A.D. |
| To be authentic, this type of plaid must be registered & approved by the Lyon Court in Edinburgh |
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Tartan (Scottish Gaelic: breacan [bxkn]) is a pattern consisting of criss-crossed horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials. Tartan is particularly associated with Scotland. Scottish kilts almost always have tartan patterns. Tartan is often called plaid in North America, but in Scotland, a plaid is a tartan cloth slung over the shoulder as a kilt accessory, or a plain ordinary blanket such as one would have on a bed. * Tartan is made with alternating bands of coloured (pre-dyed) threads woven as both warp and weft at right angles to each other. The weft is woven in a simple twill, two overtwo under the warp, advancing one thread at each pass. This forms visible diagonal lines where different colours cross, which give the appearance of new colours blended from the original ones. The resulting blocks of colour repeat vertically and horizontally in a distinctive pattern of squares and lines known as a s |