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单词 shepherd's plaid
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Definition of shepherd's plaid in English:

shepherd's plaid

noun
  • 1A small black-and-white check pattern.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Even Chanel, being a follower of classic elegance, offers a combination of a long shepherd's check skirt with a slinky short-cut shepherd's plaid jacket of same color spectrum.
    • The shepherd's plaid in all sizes and varieties will be as much in evidence this Spring and Summer as it was last, not less so among the fashionables and more so among the crowd of smartly gowned people whose names never figure in the society lists.
    • He always wore a dark grey cutaway coat, shepherd's plaid trousers, and a cap with a large peak, and out of doors carried a plaid over his shoulder.
    • The graphs for the pirie and shepherd's plaid stockings only take you through the calf shaping.
    • He used about this time to affect a large unrolled umbrella and a shepherd's plaid scarf, but I dare say he left the brolly at home when he went to fetch the armchair.
    • He has prepared for this by having a shepherd's plaid cap in his pocket.
    • Betcha you didn't know that shepherd's check (also known as shepherd's plaid) is a pattern of small even black-and-white checks?
    • A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes.
    1. 1.1mass noun Woollen cloth with a pattern of small black and white checks.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some better known worsteds are basket cloth, Bedford cord, challis, cheviot, coatings, cravenette, crêpe, etamine, flannel, gabardine, grenadine, nun's veiling, Panama, pinstripes, plaid, poplin, serge, shepherd's plaid, skirtings, suiting, tricotine, Poiret twille, piquetine, voile, and whipcord.
      • Finally, he wore a suit of small patterned shepherd's plaid and a straw hat.
      • The bottom of the mine was thus a rough uneven checker of squares like a piece of shepherd's plaid, criss-crossed by innumerable ropes which formed a spider's web above the diggers.
      • It shows a man in a kilt and shepherd's plaid, presumably dead from exposure and found by his wife.
      • Members wore shepherd's plaids, usually a black and white wool check pattern secured by a brooch and carried crooks.
      • In John Steell's statue, Scott sits wrapped in his shepherd's plaid, a book on his knee, his faithful deerhound Maida casting up an enquiring glance at her master more than twice life size.
      • A cotton factory was built in 1788; and an extensive cotton trade, in connection with firms in Glasgow and Carlisle, was carried on till 1832, when the manufacture of shepherd's plaids and shepherd check trouserings was introduced, and led to the production of very beautiful and highly finished fabrics.
      • They were all seated in the Gaelic fashion, on the hillside, in a circle facing the officiating elder; the women all neatly dressed in net cape, and wearing scarlet or plaid shawls; the men wearing their blue bonnets, and having their shepherd's plaids wrapped round them.
 
 

Definition of shepherd's plaid in US English:

shepherd's plaid

(also shepherd's check)
noun
  • 1A small black-and-white check pattern.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He always wore a dark grey cutaway coat, shepherd's plaid trousers, and a cap with a large peak, and out of doors carried a plaid over his shoulder.
    • The graphs for the pirie and shepherd's plaid stockings only take you through the calf shaping.
    • Betcha you didn't know that shepherd's check (also known as shepherd's plaid) is a pattern of small even black-and-white checks?
    • He has prepared for this by having a shepherd's plaid cap in his pocket.
    • He used about this time to affect a large unrolled umbrella and a shepherd's plaid scarf, but I dare say he left the brolly at home when he went to fetch the armchair.
    • The shepherd's plaid in all sizes and varieties will be as much in evidence this Spring and Summer as it was last, not less so among the fashionables and more so among the crowd of smartly gowned people whose names never figure in the society lists.
    • Even Chanel, being a follower of classic elegance, offers a combination of a long shepherd's check skirt with a slinky short-cut shepherd's plaid jacket of same color spectrum.
    • A superior young British bachelor, he was once captain of the Eton cricket eleven, followed the armies of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, and won the awed admiration of Italian aviators in Salamanca by dressing for the war in a shepherd's plaid shooting jacket and ponderous suede shoes.
    1. 1.1 Woolen cloth with a small black-and-white check pattern.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They were all seated in the Gaelic fashion, on the hillside, in a circle facing the officiating elder; the women all neatly dressed in net cape, and wearing scarlet or plaid shawls; the men wearing their blue bonnets, and having their shepherd's plaids wrapped round them.
      • It shows a man in a kilt and shepherd's plaid, presumably dead from exposure and found by his wife.
      • Members wore shepherd's plaids, usually a black and white wool check pattern secured by a brooch and carried crooks.
      • The bottom of the mine was thus a rough uneven checker of squares like a piece of shepherd's plaid, criss-crossed by innumerable ropes which formed a spider's web above the diggers.
      • A cotton factory was built in 1788; and an extensive cotton trade, in connection with firms in Glasgow and Carlisle, was carried on till 1832, when the manufacture of shepherd's plaids and shepherd check trouserings was introduced, and led to the production of very beautiful and highly finished fabrics.
      • Some better known worsteds are basket cloth, Bedford cord, challis, cheviot, coatings, cravenette, crêpe, etamine, flannel, gabardine, grenadine, nun's veiling, Panama, pinstripes, plaid, poplin, serge, shepherd's plaid, skirtings, suiting, tricotine, Poiret twille, piquetine, voile, and whipcord.
      • Finally, he wore a suit of small patterned shepherd's plaid and a straw hat.
      • In John Steell's statue, Scott sits wrapped in his shepherd's plaid, a book on his knee, his faithful deerhound Maida casting up an enquiring glance at her master more than twice life size.
 
 
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