tartan
English
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Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)tən
Etymology 1
Blend of Middle English tartaryn (“rich material”), from Middle French tartarin (“Tartar cloth”), and Middle French tiretaine (“cloth of mixed fibers”), from Old French tiret (“kind of cloth”), from tire (“oriental cloth of silk”), from Medieval Latin tyrius (“material from Tyre”), from Latin Tyrus (“Tyre”).
Noun
tartan (countable and uncountable, plural tartans)
- A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
- The pattern associated with such material.
- An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
- Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
Derived terms
Translations
woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern
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pattern associated with such material
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Adjective
tartan (comparative more tartan, superlative most tartan)
- Having a pattern like a tartan.
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- ... my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.
- 1929, M. Barnard Eldershaw, A House Is Built, Chapter IX, Section iii
- In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 11:
- (humorous) Scottish.
Translations
having tartan pattern
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Verb
tartan (third-person singular simple present tartans, present participle tartaning, simple past and past participle tartaned)
- (transitive) To clothe in tartan.
Etymology 2
Borrowed from French tartane, from Italian tartana, of uncertain origin.
Alternative forms
Noun
tartan (plural tartans)
- A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
- 1877, Jules Verne, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
- Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan, and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
- 1896, Arthur Conan Doyle, Rodney Stone, Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
- When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.
- 1877, Jules Verne, Ellen E. Frewer (translator), Hector Servadac, Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
- (historical) A kind of long covered carriage.
Translations
one-masted lateen sailed vessel used in the Mediterranean
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Anagrams
Danish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
tartan n or c (singular definite tartanet or tartanen)
- tartan (woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern)
- tartan (synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.) [from 1969]
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