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plaiden

plaiden noun: a coarse, woollen cloth.

Noun

plaiden (plural plaidens)

  1. (Scotland) A coarse, woollen cloth
    • To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain.1821, Walter Scott, Bride of Lammermoor, page 240
    • It is miserably poor, and much out of the way, and produces no better commodities than plaiden webs, green kale, and handsome lads and lasses.1841, Charles Dickens, The Pic-nic Papers, volume 1, page 159

Forms of plaiden

pluralplaidens
alternative formplaidin

Origin of plaiden

Corruption of plaiding.

Questions about plaiden

What does plaiden mean?
Plaiden means a coarse, woollen cloth.
What part of speech is plaiden?
Plaiden is a noun.
What is the plural of plaiden?
The plural of plaiden is plaidens.

Words near plaiden in the dictionary

  1. plaices
  2. plaid
  3. Plaid Cymru
  4. plaide
  5. plaided
  6. plaiden
  7. plaidens
  8. plaides
  9. plaiding
  10. plaidings
  11. plaidless

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