plaid
/plad
/noun [mass noun]
1Chequered or tartan twilled cloth, typically made of wool: a plaid shawl...
- Highlights of its mix-and-match range include knitwear in cable, Fair Isle and jersey, leather pieces in oak and black, and fabrics such as wool plaid, bouclé and herringbone.
- Men's classic suiting is coming out in patterns such as houndstooth, herringbone, glen plaid, tartan, pinstripes and Donegal tweed.
- The familiar wool plaid jackets kept these men warm in early morning before the rays of the sun penetrated the canopy to reach the forest floor.
1.1 [count noun] A long piece of tartan worn over the shoulder as part of Scottish Highland dress.Hard to miss, especially as they turned out in full dress uniform with plaids and feather bonnets on what turned out to be a warm day....
- The plaid is a length of tartan cloth draped over the shoulder and does not properly refer to the pattern, which is the tartan.
- His genre paintings, after he came to London, are not strongly Scottish in their detail (as a Lowlander he was unhappy that the kilt and plaid were being treated as national costume).
Derivatives
plaided
/ adjective ...- They are checked and striped, plaided and spotted, creased, curved, whirled.
- He had on when he left a black cloth cap, black cloth pantaloons, a plaided sack coat, a fine shirt, and brogan shoes.
Origin
Early 16th century: from Scottish Gaelic plaide 'blanket', of unknown ultimate origin.