tartan
suomi-englanti sanakirjatartan englannista suomeksi
skottiruutuinen villakangas, tartaani
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tartan englanniksi
(senseid) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at 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; a particular type of such fabric.
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(RQ:Scott Tales of My Landlord 2) 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.
(RQ:Macaulay History of England)
(senseid) A pattern used on such fabric.
(RQ:Burns Poems)
An individual who wears tartan ''((senseno))''; specifically, a Scottish Highlander, or a Scottish person (chiefly a Scotsman) general.
(senseid) A type of fly used in fishing, often to catch salmon.
(quote-book); Charles Tilt,(nb...)|page=73|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/northernangleror00kirkiala/page/73/mode/1up|oclc=3404376|passage=What is called the tartan-fly kills well in the Highlands at the clearing of the water. The tail must be yellow, mixed with a little red; and tipt with silver-thread; the body must be of five or six different colours, yellow, blue, orange, green, red, and black; the colours must join; (..)
(senseid) A young person who is a member of a Protestant gang in Ireland.
(quote-book) in association with (w)|year_published=1980|page=15|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/undergoliath0000cart/page/15/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-14-031132-7|passage=The Shankill was a tough district all right. It was really hard-line Protestant and most of the kids were in tough Prod gangs, like the Tartans.
''Preceded by'' the: a group of people customarily wearing tartan; Scottish Highlanders or Scottish people collectively; also, the soldiers of a Scottish Highland regiment collectively.
(quote-book) called to Colonel (quote-gloss) Ewart, 'Ewart, bring on the tartan!'; his bugler sounded the advance, and the seven companies of the Ninety-Third (quote-gloss) dashed from behind the bank.
(senseid) ''Originally a name in the form'' Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, tracks, etc.
(quote-book)|page=23|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=dQFHe9RwE0wC&pg=PA23|isbn=978-0-8108-6781-9|passage=(w) ran a world record 9.1 for 100 y(quote-gloss) on a Tartan-surface track in St. Louis in 1963, and Tartan tracks (manufactured by 3M) were installed for the Pan-American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1967, and for the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968.
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(quote-journal) Constable (printer and publisher)|Thomas & ADavid Constable,(nb...), at the (w) for John Douglas,(nb...)|volume=IV|issue=82|page=92|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_the-national-observer-and-british-review-of-politics_1890-06-14_4_82/page/92/mode/1up|oclc=820620110|passage=But of oatmeal we have tartan—tartan purry it was sometimes called, and probably therefore was a partially French invention—a pudding made chiefly of chopped kale and oatmeal; (..)
Made of tartan ''(noun (senseno))'', or having a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at angles like a that of a tartan.
(RQ:Burns Poems), / And dirk (quote-gloss) and pistol at her belt, / She'll take the streets, / And run her whittle (quote-gloss) to the hilt, / In the first she meets!
(RQ:Thackeray Vanity Fair)
(quote-book) (w), (w)|chapter=IX|title=A House is Built|location=London&59; Bombay, Maharashtra|publisher=G. Harrap and Co.|George G. Harrap & Co.|section=section iii|page=225|oclc=8841255|passage=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, (..)
Of or relating to Scotland, its culture, or people; Scottish.
(quote-book)|location=Edinburgh&59; London|publisher=(publishing house)|William Blackwood and Sons|year_published=1885|pages=441–442|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/recordsofargylll00campuoft/page/441/mode/1up|oclc=4658682|passage=That 42d tartan is Campbell tartan rests upon the fact that the Black Watch was officered by a large majority of Campbells at first. When I was first tartaned, more than fifty years ago, I was taken by John Campbell, piper, to the shop of his brother William, in Glasgow, to be tailored.
(quote-book) worked away at the tartaning of Scotland in the run-up to a landmark visit by (w), when even the fat king would be wearing full Scottish tartan.
(quote-book) out.
(quote-journal)|volume=X (4th Series)|issue=500|page=466|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_chambers-journal-of-popular-literature-science-and-arts_1873-07-26_10_500/page/466/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=793924257|passage=The unholy beast in the box was the most splendid and graceful specimen of the monitor lizard I have ever seen. (..) Smooth, though scaly, and inky black, tartaned all over with transverse rows of bright yellow spots, with eyes that shone like wild-fire, and teeth like quartz, with his forked tongue continually flashing out from his bright-red mouth, he had a wild, weird loveliness that was most uncanny.|footer=(small)
(quote-journal)|volume=21|issue=2|page=31|issn=0044-5851|oclc=607655017|passage=Why shouldn't the waitresses in the dining room, each one of them already attired in a distinctive clan tartan, be required to carry a small card identifying the tartan for the convenience of diners who might want to purchase tartaned gifts after their meal?|footer=(small)
To make (something) Scottish, or more Scottish; to tartanize.
(quote-journal)|volume=21|issue=2|page=31|issn=0044-5851|oclc=607655017|passage=The premier (quote-gloss) was photographed repeatedly at the annual Gaelic Mod, and sitting at a loom in a display of Highland handicrafts in Scotland itself. The premier also focused his attention on the tartaning of the provincially owned Keltic Lodge.
(quote-book) and the ‘Long Dark Night of Late Capitalism’|title=Irvine Welsh|location=Manchester&59; New York, N.Y.|publisher=Manchester University Press|page=28|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/irvinewelsh0000kell/page/28/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-7190-6650-4|passage=Hence, Edinburgh's working class has conventionally been doubly excluded and marginalised. (..) Secondly, within a nationalist paradigm, by the ‘tartaning up’ of that same city centre – the concomitant tourist culture of Scotland as a national heritage site. The Edinburgh of romantic or puritanical nationalism myth has no imaginative or social space for an urban working class.
A type of one-masted vessel with a lateen sail and a foresail, used in the Mediterranean.
(RQ:Dampier New Voyage) VVe that came over Land out of the ''South Seas'' being vveary of living among the ''French'', deſired Captain ''VVright'' to fit up his Prize the Tartan, and make a Man of VVar of her for us, (..)
(RQ:Verne Frewer Hector Servadac)
(RQ:Doyle Rodney Stone)
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