How to use tartan in a sentence

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• Their leaves are particoloured like a tartan, and, although called tricolours, they are often, in fact, quadricoloured.1975, Ippolito Pizzetti, Henry Cocker, Flowers: a Guide for Your Garden, volume 2, page 971. From the entry quadricoloured
• When Olly snakes out from under the bed, his tartan bathrobe rootches up over his gaunt ribs, revealing ghastly scars.2012, Honor Molloy, Smarty Girl: Dublin Savage, page 95. From the entry rootch
• But I have never set foot in my house there, for it is carpeted throughout with the tartan of my clan.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry glen
• By the mid-nineteenth century tartan had become a mythic material encompassing ideas of nationhood, clanship, and political allegiance seen through increasingly fashionable and spectacular forms.2010, Networks of Design: Proceedings of the 2008 Annual International Conference of the Design History Society, page 161. From the entry mythic
• Despite her dress, which was of a tremendous tartan, she diffused the pale authentic radiance of a spirituality most high, most simple.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry transmute
• While waiting for others to arrive, Margaret Scott-Stewart, a big, friendly woman of 55 in a tartan tunic and blue bonnet, smokes Royals and sings 'Charlie Is My Darling'.2009 August 21, Scotland on Sunday. From the entry blue bonnet
• 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

Meaning of tartan

1. noun Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right 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; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
2. noun A pattern used on such fabric.
3. noun Clothing made from this fabric.

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Questions about tartan in a sentence

How do you use tartan in a sentence?

Tartan is used as a noun, adjective and verb. For example: “It was really hard-line Protestant and most of the kids were in tough Prod gangs, like the Tartans.”

What is a short sentence with tartan?

“Running tracks are also known as tartan tracks.”

What does tartan mean?

Tartan means woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right 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; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.