tartan
To clothe in tartanTo clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.2).
» The skirt has a tartan pattern.
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3 senses(transitive)To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1.2).
(transitive)To apply a tartan pattern to (something).
(figuratively, transitive)To make (something) Scottish, or more Scottish; to tartanize.
Examples
3 sentencesThe skirt has a tartan pattern.
We'd suggest a chic upholstered bed with a little tartan fabric.
She inherited a beautiful wool blanket woven in the traditional Black Watch tartan.
Origin
The noun is an unadapted borrowing from Scots tartan, from Old Scots tartane, tertane, proThe noun is an unadapted borrowing from Scots tartan, from Old Scots tartane, tertane, probably from Old French tertaine, tiretaine (“cloth of wool mixed with cotton or linen”), probably from tiret (“kind of precious cloth”) + -aine modelled after futaine (“woven cloth made from cotton mixed with linen or silk”). Tiret is derived from tire (“kind of silk cloth”), from Medieval Latin tyrium (“cloth dyed with Tyrian purple”), a noun use of Latin tyrium, an inflection of tyrius (“of Tyre, Tyrian”), from Latin Tyrus (“Phoenician city of Tyre (in modern Lebanon)”) (from Ancient Greek Τῠ́ρος (Tŭ́ros), from Phoenician 𐤑𐤓 (ṣr)) + -ius (suffix forming adjectives).
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Forms
tartans, tartaning, tartaned, tartanedWord family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.