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tartanized

tartanized is the simple past and past participle of tartanize.

Meaning of tartanize

Verb

tartanize (third-person singular simple present tartanizes, present participle tartanizing, simple past and past participle tartanized)

  1. (transitive) To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.
    • Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.2010, Ian McKay, Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia

Questions about tartanized

What is tartanized the simple past and past participle of?
Tartanized is the simple past and past participle of tartanize.

Words near tartanized in the dictionary

  1. tartanilla
  2. tartanillas
  3. tartaning
  4. tartanization
  5. tartanize
  6. tartanized
  7. tartanizes
  8. tartanizing
  9. tartanned
  10. tartanry
  11. tartans

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