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tartan

Woollen cloth woven in specific chequered patterns individual to Scottish clans, with stripes of different widths and colours crisscrossing on a coloured background; it is used in making skirts, kilts, trousers, and other articles of clothing.

Developed in the 17th century, tartan was banned after the 1745 Jacobite rebellion, and not legalized again until 1782.



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However, the vessel and the swimmer insensibly neared one another, and in one of its tacks the tartan bore down within a quarter of a mile of him.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
They were forbidden to wear the kilt or the tartan, and everything was done to make them speak English and forget Gaelic.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
  Silence your pibroch, doff tartan and plume:
The Devil's Dictionary by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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