plaid

[ plad ]

/ plæd /

any fabric woven of differently colored yarns in a crossbarred pattern.

a pattern of this kind.

a long, rectangular piece of cloth, usually with such a pattern and worn across the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

having the pattern of a plaid.

Origin of plaid

1505–15; < Scots Gaelic plaide blanket, plaid (def 3)

Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.

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There are young rock chicks and rock-boys and arty-looking men and women, in plaid, denim, ripped and stretched cardigans.

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Wearing a plaid shirt, the stocky singer looked like a bricklayer playing an open mic at a bar.

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In the back of a limo, wearing a plaid blazer, Quast raises his drink and says with a wink, “you stay classy, Iowa.”

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Harry kept his plaid shirt on and danced in the comforts of his own skybox.

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In an instant La Louve, who had quickly flown at her lover's second command, returned wrapped in a plaid mantle.

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By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.

Jane Eyre |Charlotte Bronte
Here, too, there was no sign of the plaid ulster which now seemed to me to bear some relation to the mystery.

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I now raked out the fire and all the mortuary remains of insects, and then laid down a plaid thrice doubled for softness.

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I lost my Bible, my plaid, or my kercher at the field preachin'!'

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plaid

/ (plæd, pleɪd) /

a long piece of cloth of a tartan pattern, worn over the shoulder as part of Highland costume

C16: from Scottish Gaelic plaide, of obscure origin