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plaidn.1 Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps formed within English, by derivation. Etymon: ply v.1 Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < the past participle of ply v.1 (compare forms at that entry), with original sense ‘a folded blanket or cloth’. Compare Scottish Gaelic plaide blanket, plaid (not tartan), coarse flannel (1659 or earlier), probably < Scots (see note below). Compare also Irish pluid blanket, perhaps a recent borrowing < Scottish Gaelic.Although the word has come to be associated with the Scottish Highlands there is no evidence to suggest that it is a borrowing of Scottish Gaelic plaide (first attested much later), which would be difficult to explain phonologically; the Scottish Gaelic word itself is difficult to account for other than as a borrowing < Scots; a suggested derivation < Scottish Gaelic peall animal skin, rug (see pillion n.2) poses phonological problems, and is unlikely; compare also Scottish Gaelic plàt cloth (apparently < plait n.). In sense 2 the equivalent word in Scottish Gaelic is féileadh belted plaid, kilt (see filibeg n.). N.E.D.(1907) also gives the pronunciation (plēid) /pleɪd/. Originally Scottish. the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > tartan 1510 in R. K. Hannay (1915) 218 [To dye 4 ells] lie plaidis [for my lord 2 s.]. 1542 in J. B. Paul (1908) VIII. 76 Four elnis quhite plaid to bouster the velvet witht. 1634 T. Herbert 187 About their middles, they haue a cloth of particoloured plad, like that with vs in England. 1699 B. E. at Cool-crape A slight Chequer'd Stuff made in imitation of Scotch Plad. 1712 14 Apr. 2/2 (advt.) Newly Imported from Great Britain; And to be Sold by Messieurs Thomas Steel and George Bethune..Spanish and Swed's Iron, Broad Cloaths, Stuffs, Linnens, Table-Linnen, fine Playds, and sundry other European Goods at very reasonable Prices. 1720 D. Defoe 156 Their [sc. the Highlanders'] Doublet, Breeches and Stockings, of a Stuff they called Plaid, striped a-cross red and yellow. 1783 W. F. Martyn 2 413 Their waistcoats are also made of plaid. 1815 9 36/1 Several handsome pieces of carpeting, diaper, plaid, denim and other cotton fabrics, deserve to be mentioned. 1845 31 July 4/5 A large lot of..Fancy Plaids,..Plain and Fancy Tweeds [etc.]. 1893 G. Hill II. 267 Plaids..were made in large and small checks, in woollen cloth, in Irish poplin. 1989 Feb. 507 She hid a letter in a roll of plaid. 1991 Sept. 48/2 Standouts from Sui are a peacoat and kilt in black-on-pink windowpane plaid. 2. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > plaid 1512 in J. B. Paul (1902) IV. 203 Item, the vj day of Maij, in Air, for ane plaid to be the King ane coit. 1563 Randolph Let. to Cecil 13 June in II. 13 A safferon shyrte or a Hylande pladde. 1575 in R. Pitcairn (1833) I. ii. 53 The wemene had all plaiddis round about thame and wer verrie semelie lyke to se. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 30 And I my Self with my pyde Pleid a-slope. 1638 T. Herbert (rev. ed.) 325 They [sc. inhabitants of Java] gird them with a parti-coloured plad or mantle. 1643 in J. Row (1842) p. xxiii I dischargit wemen to cover thair headis withe thair plaidis in tyme cuming in the kirk. 1725 D. Defoe ii. 96 A Mantle..thrown about him like a Scotsman's Plaid. 1771 T. Pennant 162 Their brechan, or plaid, consists of twelve or thirteen yards of a narrow stuff, wrapt round the middle, and reaches to the knees. 1774 J. Collyer I. 20 The tartan plads of Scotland. 1859 17 Sept. 500/2 I..arranged my plaid,..and was getting all ataut. 1874 Princess Alice in (1884) 325 Will you tell her, the plaid she made me still goes everywhere with me. 1925 A. M. Stewart 20 A Plaid was 4 yards long by 2 yards wide... Plaids were woven twice the length of a shawl. 1977 C. McCullough (1978) IV. xi. 287 Not one woman wore a clan tartan, for indeed no Scotswoman wears a kilt, only the plaid, and it was too hot to drape a great heavy piece of material around the shoulders. 1992 F. McLynn iv. xv. 320 Baker arrayed himself in kilt, sporran, glengarry and plaid of Atholl tartan to astonish and impress Kamurasi's people. 1538 in J. B. Paul (1905) VI. 443 For xxv. elnes bertane canwes to be pladis to the quenis hors. 1578 in D. Masson (1880) 1st Ser. III. 89 A plaid or blankat to keip the saidis bairnis fra cauld. 1590 17 July Ane pair off hardin scheitis xiii s. iiii d., ane pair off bed pleydis xiiii s. iiii d. 1704 in A. W. C. Hallen (1894) 349 For a tartan plaid to be a horss sheit bought at the rouping. 1747 in D. Warrand (1930) V. 217 To 2 bed plaids 14.6. 1842 12 267 My bed, when out of ship, always consists of the plaid my mother gave me, and either a blanket-bag or a rug of opossum skins. 1898 E. W. Hamilton ii Run away back, then, lassie, and put it betwixt the bed-plaides. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ 239 She took little Ewan with her then and a plaid to wrap him in for sleep. 1990 F. M. Hendry 92 He gently lifted Lachlan's feet onto the bed and covered him with a plaid. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland 1749 S. Jenyns 6 Plagues we shou'd feel sufficient, on my Word, Starv'd by two Houses, priest-rid by a Third. For better Days we lately had a Chance, Had not the honest Plaids been trick'd by France. 1814 W. Scott III. xv. 200 He was hanged at Stirling..with his lieutenant, and four plaids besides. 1815 W. Scott Let. in J. G. Lockhart III. xi. 381 A full account of the affair of 1745, with the trials..of the poor plaids who were strapped up at Carlisle. the world > matter > colour > variegation > chequered pattern > [noun] > tartan the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric manufactured in specific way > [noun] > patterned > checked > pattern 1845 June 733/2 An immense step in the improvement of this garment has been made by the introduction of all that beautiful variety of plaids, and checked patterns, which are so commonly used. 1881 Dec. 126/2 The economist must, however, avoid all striking fashions in stuffs—the ‘polka dot’, large plaids, or any bizarre fashion. 1897 No. 104. 222/1 Persians, plaids, checks, brocades, dots, floral. 1936 7 Mar. 44/2 (advt.) We carry sports jackets in checks, plaids, and hound's tooth patterns. 1979 Mar. 65/3 (advt.) Very shortly the computer will automate the matching of patterns so that plaids and stripes will extend evenly across garment seams. 1991 Apr. 6/2 Conte—the deal-maker, the mixer of plaids and stripes, the clown prince of Capitol Hill who was crazy like a fox. Compounds C1. 1587 Edinb. Test. XVIII. f. 81v, in (at cited word) Inglis claytht of plaid cullour. 1621 in R. D. MacEwan (1916) 25 To teache..James Calder in thir four poyntis of his weifer craft viz. the wound loome, sea bombacie loome, the playd loome and playding. 1634 93 Four pund of plaid worsett. 1662 (1887) 240 The saids proveist, baillies and councill..discharges them..from litting any plaid yairn, and from worping and working any that shall not be of the lenth and breidth abone writtin. 1711 E. Freke Diary 16 Oct. in (1912) 18 203 1 New Plod Quilt never worne. 1736 18 Sept. 3/1 Just imported in the King George, Capt. Ayres from London..mens plaid night gowns & jackets, spotted worsted damask, Scotch checks & ticks, strip'd & sprig'd holland for womens gowns. 1796 J. Woodforde 11 Oct. (1929) IV. 313 I bought of him 7. yards of a bright striped Cotton..of a kind of plad colour. 1815 W. Scott v. xviii. 198 Do not my plaid-folds hold thee warm? 1837 C. Dickens xxix. 308 He wore a pair of plaid trousers, and a large rough double-breasted waistcoat. 1875 W. S. Hayward 54 Get me my plaid shawl and a plain dark bonnet. 1950 26 Sept. 3/1 (advt.) It's a bold colored, first quality plaid shirt you'll like wearing. 1960 A. MacLean ii. 25 All I could see of him was..a Glenurquhart plaid jacket that seemed a couple of sizes too big for him. 1988 A. Brookner viii. 119 Christine, in plaid skirt and blazer, looked, she thought, like a country mouse. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil i. 18 Plad vested Helen, from Greece when to Troy she flitted. 1897 S. R. Crockett xxiii. 233 The blast which hurtled across the moors..might have been a breathing zephyr for all that the plaid-wrapped girl knew or cared. 1916 1 Mar. 4/4 The little plaid-skirted five-year old tot. 1948 20 Jan. 1/2 Grey plaid patterned Coat and Skirt. 1996 Sept. 153/1 An alternative rock climate still dominated by the plaid-shirted anti-star posturing of grunge. C2. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > other types of bed c1710 C. Fiennes (1888) 297 A pladd bed Lined wth Indian Callicoe. the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > British nation > Scots nation > [noun] > native or inhabitant of Scotland > parts of Scotland 1763 17 There is one event indeed for which all parties will join in praising the Scot! if to him it can be solely ascribed, (as his brother-plaidmen give out). 1814 W. Scott III. xiii. 170 O!..I thought it was Ned Williams, and it is one of the plaid-men . View more context for this quotation 1861 Oct. 495/2 Their army was beaten in five minutes and some odd seconds by Prince Charles Edward's Highlanders, their cavalry running off in a panic, and their General never stopping until he had put twenty miles between himself and the nearest of the plaid-men. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > loose clothing > plaid > part of a1600 in (1910) 281/18 ‘Humff!’ quod the Helandman, and turned him abowt, And at his plaid nuk the guly fell owt. 1819 W. Scott xvi. 246 He hath left one grand-child, a smart and hopeful youth, whom I have noted to be never without a pebble in his plaid-nook, to fling at whatsoever might come in his way. 1886 R. L. Stevenson i. 6 A little Bible, to carry in a plaid-neuk. 1960 607 Within living memory the plaids used by shepherds for protection against the weather and also, folded in a particular way to form the ‘plaid-neuk’, as a hold-all for lambs or shopping gear, were made in the parish, of local material finished by the local tailor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Plaidn.2Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: Welsh Plaid (Genedlaethol) Cymru , Plaid Cymru n. Etymology: Originally short for Welsh Plaid (Genedlaethol) Cymru (see Plaid Cymru n.); in later use short for Plaid Cymru n.With the Plaid compare Welsh y Blaid, literally ‘the Party’, used in the same sense. Compare also the Blaid, occasionally used in an English context, especially by native speakers of Welsh:2000 Independent (Nexis) 13 Feb. Now Plaid Cymru, ‘the Party of Wales’, may be succeeding Labour. What seems to be happening is that the citizens of Monmouthshire and Glamorgan..are no longer afraid of the Blaid (note the mutation). British Politics. society > authority > rule or government > politics > British politics > British party politics > [noun] > nationalist parties 1928 Apr. 108/1 In some points of procedure, the Plaid follows the policy of Sinn Fein in Ireland. 1943 E. L. Chappell ix. 91 I disagree with the basic assumptions of Plaid propaganda. 1958 15 Aug. 225/3 The pacific Christian leadership of the Plaid. 1966 16 July 8/6 He [sc. Gwynfor Evans] has sought it the dogged, responsible way, frowning on the Plaid's dynamite fringe. 1979 V. Bogdanor v. 128 The Plaid's specific proposals. 2004 (Nexis) 22 May 2 Plaid's local government manifesto lists safer communities as one of its key aims. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.11510n.21928 |
