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How to pronounce tartan in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms plaid
Type of cloth, fabric, material, textile

Examples of tartan

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Add a print infusion to your workwear with a tartan bag or printed cotton scarf.
From the express.co.uk
Almost all Scottish clans have more than one tartan attributed to their surname.
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The logo depicts two Sprinters woven into a tartan motif, representing Scotland.
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To complete the picture of course the pipers were there in the Campbell tartan.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Those who could wore McQueen outfits, including some with his signature tartan.
From the boston.com
A demure tartan in blue, black and gray gets a punky twist with silver buttons.
From the tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com
For the past 70 years, the organization has displayed the Royal Stewart tartan.
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When you've done the tartan and whisky bit in Edinburgh, this is the place to go.
From the guardian.co.uk
Some jurisdictions also have fluorescent orange stripes surrounding the tartan.
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More examples
  • A cloth having a crisscross design
  • Tartan 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. ...
  • The Tartan, formerly known as The Carnegie Tartan, is the original student newspaper of Carnegie Mellon University. Publishing since 1906, it is one of Carnegie Mellon's largest and oldest student organizations. It currently has over 170 student members, who contribute on a weekly basis. ...
  • (The Tartans) The Tartans were a rocksteady group who came together in 1967 in Kingston, Jamaica. The members were initially Prince Lincoln Thompson, Cedric Myton, Devon Russell and Lindberg Lewis.
  • A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns; The pattern associated with such material; An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander ...
  • (TARTANS) patterned material used for kilts.
  • The traditional name for Scottish plaid cloth, originally made from wool with a twill weave. From the French tiretaine meaning "linsey-woolsey". ...
  • Is a twilled plaid design, originally Scottish.
  • Online Learning Management System that allows professors to post course materials and communicate with students outside of the classroom.