How to pronounce“tartan”in English
Then she paused for breath and said, "So, how do you like me?" And he said, "I've never seen anything like you." Boom! Wow, that was it. What a relationship. Also, I got this
tartan skirt that she's bought at the tourist shop. She's got black leggings and she's kind of cute. She's just got off the ferry, got her backpack full of cameras and stuff. And
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Definitions of “tartan”
Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
“Her hands trembled […] as she adjusted the scarlet tartan screen or muffler made of plaid, which the Scottish women wore, much in the fashion of the black silk veils still a part of female dress in the Netherlands.”
Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
Made of tartan (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1), or having a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles like a that of a tartan.
“Her tartan petticoat ſhe'll kilt, / An' durk an' piſtol at her belt, / She'll tak the ſtreets, / An' rin her vvhittle to the hilt, / I' th' firſt ſhe meets!”
Of or relating to Scotland, its culture, or people; Scottish.
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