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• Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.From the entry grunge
• As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze.From the entry embody
• He was wearing some really dorktastic plaid shorts and a T-shirt that said “Kiss Me, I’m Irish.”2008, Amy MacDonald, Too Much Flapdoodle!, New York, N.Y.: Melanie Kroupa Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 162. From the entry dorktastic
• Dreama pulled the plaid Burberry knock-off bag onto her lap and fished around inside it.2005, C. M. Miller, Dead Broke: An Audrey Wilson Mystery, page 6. From the entry Dreama
• At that price, I wove at least two women’s long, plaid overcloths—maybe more.2002, Kathryn S. March, “III. Nhanu: Parsing a Life, Naming What Matters”, in “If Each Comes Halfway”: Meeting Tamang Women in Nepal…. From the entry overcloth
• His stomach was tight with a six-pack, and his plaid flannel pajama pants showed his V-cut in mouthwatering detail.2016, Jenna Sutton, Hanging by a Thread, page 166. From the entry V-cut
• This is where grassroots trends like fedoras, graffiti prints, plaid shirts, nerd glasses, messenger bags, and granny boots originated.2012, Lois Joy Johnson, The Wardrobe Wakeup: Your Guide to Looking Fabulous at Any Age, Running Press, →ISBN, page 254. From the entry nerd glasses
• Amberly's matchiness took the form of a black, gray, and red plaid skirt topped by a gray T-shirt and black cardigan.2012, Kate Brian, Legacy. From the entry matchiness
• Gerald shuffles into the kitchen in plaid pyjamas, his favourite red Ferrari shirt, and asks for a peanut butter and jam.2011, Jessica Hiemstra-van der Horst, “Excerpts from Gerald, God and the Chickens”, in Apologetic for Joy, Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Lane…. From the entry peanut butter and jam
• She wore thrift-store clothes that tended not to flatter her—a man's plaid polyester leisure suit, a paisley trapeze dress, gray Mr.2001, Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections. From the entry trapeze dress
• A small toothed geekster wearing aviator glasses and a virtuosically painted plaid shirt, Greenwold lives in Albany, New York .1999, Artforum International - Volume 37, page 93. From the entry geekster
• On his head he wore a red wool collection of flaps and plaid, topped off with a deedlee ball.1999, Kevin Canty, Nine Below Zero: A Novel, New York, N.Y. […]: Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, →ISBN, page 75. From the entry deedlee ball
• She saw dresses in every color of the rainbow; she saw lime green cummerbunds and pink cummerbunds and plaid ones.1994, L[isa] J[ane] Smith, The Chase (The Forbidden Game; II), New York, N.Y.: Archway Paperback, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 99. From the entry cummerbund
• Some of the checked materials have fancy plaid outlines.1927, National Drygoods Reporter and Drygoodsman, page 33. From the entry glenurquhart
• Her dress was gingham!—an adorable plaid with long sleeves, and a patch-pocket low down on the right side!1913, Eleanor Gates, The Poor Little Rich Girl. From the entry gingham
• Dad bought a red Scotch plaid tie, very near to 'kipper' size, but mum was still wearing flared skirts below the knee.2017, Jean A. Stockdale, My Spring: Royal Times and Ordinary Lives. From the entry kipper
• "She hammocked their plaids between the table and the bed, then edged her way past Kenneth as she approached the central hearth."2013, Mary Jo Putney, Patricia Rice, Susan King, Christmas Roses: Love Blooms in Winter. From the entry hammock
• Her stitching was fine and regular, her smocking came out even, and the plaids of her jackets met invisibly at the seams.1994, Ian Frazier, chapter 1, in Family, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN; republished New York, N.Y.: Picador USA…. From the entry smocking
• A green and pink plaid hat box contains eight more hatboxes that can be stacked like a set of Russian nesting dolls.1991 May 30, Emily Gwathmey, “Storage Box: Catchall's New Life as Eye-Catcher”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 14…. From the entry hatbox
• Minna might be sitting in her plaid dress on the window-seat with her embroidery, her smooth hair polished with bay-rum, humming Solveig's song.1915, Dorothy Richardson, Pointed Roofs, Broadview, published 2014, page 177. From the entry bay rum
• And other folks working the body scanner crack a grin after the four-legged floofer, outfitted in a blue-and-black plaid vest advertising “Pet me!”, emerges from the metal detector.2019 November 14, Jenny McCoy, “Meet Shogun, Arguably the Chillest (And Fluffiest) Employee At DIA”, in 5280. From the entry floofer
• I'm not afraid to make State Fair as bright and colorful as possible and put bunch of prints and plaids on actors, and make it all saccharine-sweet.2010 September, Lou Bird, quoted in "What It's Like to be a Costume Designer", St. Louis magazine, ISSN 1090-5723, volume 16, issue 9…. From the entry campiness
• The men are bearded and blue-guernseyed, the women are universally robust, well-nourished, blue-eyed, wearing a little shawl over the head and a plaid over the shoulders, both of tartan.2009, Neil Munro, The Looker On, page 81. From the entry guernseyed
• A carafe of tea and a plate of oatmeal cookies were on a small mahogany table in front of a pink and lime green plaid loveseat.2007, Nora Charles, Death Rides the Surf, Penguin, →ISBN. From the entry love seat
• Three-piece lounge suits, made in tweed checks and plaids, and the knickerbocker suits which were popular for countrywear, were worn with turned-down collars and broad ties.1992, Sue Atkinson, “A brief history of fashion”, in Making and Dressing Dolls House Dolls in ¹⁄₁₂ Scale, David & Charles, published 1999…. From the entry countrywear
• The solids are detailed with a sportly plaid trim inside the (A) collar band, (B) yoke, (C) cuff, (D) pocket gussets and (E) under the pocket flaps.1977, Texas Monthly, volume 5, number 10, page 224. From the entry sportly
• After years of reading of Sherlock Holmes, it was rather expected to see a few Scotland Yard men with double-peaked plaid caps and curved pipe stems.1917 April 24, “Spirit of England Is Brought to U.S. Lobbies and Lounges of Washington Hotels Appear Like Halls of London.”, in The…. From the entry Conan Doylish
• High-grade mozambiques are often woven in fancy plaids and checks and complicated openwork patterns, and when of this style are intended to be made up over a foundation fabric.1900, George S. Cole, “MOZAMBIQUE”, in Cole's Encyclopedia of Dry Goods: A Reference Book for the Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods Trade of…. From the entry mozambique

Meaning of plaid

1. noun A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
2. noun A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.
3. noun The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

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Questions about plaid in a sentence

How do you use plaid in a sentence?

Plaid is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “Alice liked to wear plaids and ripped jeans, and listen to grunge.”

What is a short sentence with plaid?

“Some of the checked materials have fancy plaid outlines.”

What does plaid mean?

Plaid means a type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.