How To Use Tartan In A Sentence
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The threatened uniform typically consists of a khaki military tunic with trousers, though in Scottish regiments the trousers are usually tartan or replaced by a kilt.
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The tartan army, for many a source of national pride as a good-natured counterpoint to prevailing hooliganism elsewhere, is now routinely derided in the press for its apparent buffoonery and lack of knowledge of the beautiful game.
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I lie under a tartan rug and my fingers twist and plait its fringe; plait, untwist, plait again: the wool is rough against my fingertips.
LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
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The former typically involves large men in loud tartan tossing the caber, throwing the hammer and putting the stone, while the latter includes athletic track and field events.
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Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.
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Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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Alex Ferguson picking up top coach last year was the nearest we've been to basking in any reflected tartan glory since Liz McColgan did the biz in 1991.
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Yet one visitor from Northern Ireland got it right about the museum when she described it as ‘a sanctuary amidst the thousand cackling hens purchasing ever more tacky plastic tartan mugs’.
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For those who know Mackenzie primarily as the author of whimsical tartan entertainments such as Whisky Galore, this bitter book comes as something of a revelation.
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After King Charles VIII's ill-starred invasion of Italy, survivors of his guard settled in a remote village in the north of the peninsula where, to this day, the inhabitants wear tartan.
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The three Lowland infantry regiments, whose members have traditionally worn tartan trews for centuries, will be forced to wear kilts when the government's planned new Scottish ‘super-regiment’ is formed next year.
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We are here to seek further distribution for Tartan TV - the new weekly half-hour television magazine programme showcasing Scotland to the world.
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Draught Tartan, Export, Harp and Carlsberg deluxe, real ale.
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He was wearing a cream silk shirt and a tartan golfing cap.
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A two-wheeled vehicle, called a tartana, very much resembling a covered cart, was to be the travelling equipage of a young
The Alhambra
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M'Durk's health to major about in the tartans like a tobacconist's sign in a frosty morning, wi 'his poor wizzened houghs as blue as a blawort?
St. Ronan's Well
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A woman walked past me, leading a miniature poodle with a tartan coat.
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He opened a drawer in his desk and produced from it a full bottle of Rannoch whisky, the familiar label adorned with an imposing male kilted figure in red and yellow tartan.
PROOF
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She smoothed the wool tartan skirt that she had bought fifteen years ago and still used for everyday wear.
SORT OF RICH
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Winter will be bursting with pink rabbit, technological designs and fluorescent and coloured tartans.
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From Italian tartana, Arabic taridha; a similar word being used in Valencia and Grand Canary for a two-wheeled open cart.
Travels through France and Italy
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The Black Gold tartan was designed by North Sea oilman Andy Grieve.
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They were an extremist joke, a tartan midgie buzzing annoyingly in the background.
Times, Sunday Times
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On a fine night the gardens are magical, dotted with folding chairs, tartan rugs and carefully chosen food that won't cause unwanted sound later.
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The Beadle (leader) commands "Gentlemen raise your tartans".
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Bearing this in mind, special mention must be made of one visibly refreshed gentleman who was wearing a sort of tartan mannequin jacket and matching bondage trews.
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His signature looks were all there; tartan ballgowns, blanket coats and double-faced cashmere sweaters and jackets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Last night we had a little party on the stage: some Gaelic Leaguers, who brought me a bouquet; some people from the Aran colony – including Synge's friend, McDonough whom I had also known in Aran; and from Kiltartan Mary R. and a cousin and Mrs. Hession's daughters, with the husband of one.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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There was a group of punky girls behind us, with torn tartan clothing and many body piercings
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He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
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Those who don't have their own will raid the store room for tartan shirts to make into kilts.
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Valencia, and offered Hopie and me seats in their _tartana_ -- a covered cart not on springs, which is the cab of the country.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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Along with the industrialists and merchants of Glasgow and Edinburgh, they assembled in Edinburgh dressed lavishly in tartan, wearing kilts, singing Robert Burns songs.
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We had our tartans woven at a mill that makes only tartans.
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The new womenswear and menswear designer emporiums showcase threads from cutting edge houses, but you can still buy tartan shortbread in the food hall.
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Situated around 160 miles south of Scotland with a third of its land nestling in the Peak District, it seems something of a surprise that Sheffield has become one of a few cities in the world to have its own tartan.
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Instead, tartans probably were regionally based with different patterns belonging to different areas of the country.
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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Away down in my heart I knew what was coming, and I watched the woman loosen her tartan shawl and lay her infant in a neuk among the hedge roots.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Looks like Edinburgh - once dominated by the castle and the shortbread and tartan tourist routes - is continuing to transform itself into a switched-on, shining city.
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Half the folk I met between the arches and the Big Barns were strangers that seemingly never had tartan on their hurdies, but settled down with a firm foot in the place, I could see by the bold look of them as I passed on the plain-stanes of the street A queer town this on the edge of Loch Finne, and far in the
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Tartan is pulled across the cold steel floor like an animal being brought to the slaughter by a ravenous predator.
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In a second a couple of scouts in dirty red and green tartans, with fealdags or pleatless kilts on them instead of the better class philabeg, crept cannily out into the open, unsuspicious that their position could be seen from the fort.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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There were a few kilted drunks doing the Tartan Army thing and it wasn't the worst crowd inside Hampden but after the barnstorming frenzies of Italy and Belarus, this was a heart-slowing comedown.
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The company plans to supply a range of black tartan kilts to meet demand for more contemporary-looking Highland clothing.
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The bound volume, kept at the museum in Edinburgh, is believed to be the first official attempt to link tartans with certain clans.
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A rough _tartana_, which performed the service of an omnibus, passed me returning to the city, and the driver, having no passengers, invited me to ride.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867
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Lovat blue and lovat green will match most tartans in the ancient colors, but also look good with many modern tartans.
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The ‘girl’ was cloaked in a brown tartan stuff of a rough texture, poor fabric, no doubt.
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Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
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A woman with orange hair wearing a yellow shirt and green tartan waistcoat and trousers plus three enormous poppies.
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Wrenched from tradition, tartan has become such fun: deregulated, demystified, with ridiculously corny accessories.
Times, Sunday Times
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As the name would suggest, the outstanding All Black, No 8 Scott Robertson, includes some tartan genes, courtesy of a Perthshire-born grandfather.
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In this way, the entire Scottish nation adopted the bogus Highland symbols of kilt and tartan.
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It was during that festival that she teamed up with the great bebop trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie - pictured here, looking knackered but resplendent in his newly acquired tartan trousers - at the Central Hotel.
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Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable.
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The haggis samosa - to be launched on Friday to coincide with Burns Night - consists of vegetarian haggis, neeps, tatties and spices, and comes complete with tasteful yellow tartan packaging.
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Eucalyptus, for example, looks good tied into a bunch with long strands of raffia or tartan ribbon, as does euonymus and cotoneaster.
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He was wearing a cream silk shirt and a tartan golfing cap.
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The company directors of Beartas designed a new tartan, woven in Harris Tweed and called the ‘Isle of Harris Tartan’.
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Blues used in tartan cloth originally came from the native plant woad, which was also used as a form of ceremonial face and body paint by ancient Scots.
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The tartan check also appears on a special tag on the heel.
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He wore the "trews" of tartan, which in itself showed him a man of consideration.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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He had his tartan plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribband like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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I'm bound to say that they didn't look any worse than the rest of the ‘guests’ - a complete ‘C-list’ bunch of nonentities, dressed in a variety of ridiculous tartan costumes.
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In his own defence, he discloses that, though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit, he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side, which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.
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The tartan taunts did not prevent him turning to a compatriot in his hour of need.
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The plaid is a length of tartan cloth draped over the shoulder and does not properly refer to the pattern, which is the tartan.
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The abstract elements of beadwork patterns play a key role in flagging difference - like the tartan kilts of Scottish clans.
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And while these elderly gents may look faintly ridiculous when they troop out in their finery of tartan trews, Lincoln green tunics and feathered bonnets they are all serious people.
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I intend that the Hunting Stewart tartan trews worn by the Royal Scots will become standard mess dress for all the ship's officers.
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We are back to that old business of trying to create a new image of Scotland because foreigners, bless'em, think of the auld country only in terms of kilts and tartan and all that old-fashioned stuff.
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He's short and swack o 'body, red of hair and face, wears a kilt o' Farquharson tartan, and winna 'say where he comes frae.
The Black Colonel
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Aside from resorting to plaintive cries and groans, in the first half there was little cause for the Tartan Army to exercise their vocal chords.
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The first is a negative tartan tax to incentivise business location in Scotland.
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He's pretty set on everyone wearing a tartan, so plain formalwear is out, unless, again, I'm trying to make a statement.
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Three tartans, since the skirt, jacket and blouse were all different.
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Can it be for the puir body M’Durk’s health to major about in the tartans like a tobacconist’s sign in a frosty morning, wi’ his poor wizzened houghs as blue as a blawort? — weel I wot he is a humbling spectacle.
Saint Ronan's Well
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Hers are a Highlander's dreams: obviously, the tartan plaid and tam-o'-shanter evince Newberry's Scottish affinity.
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This afternoon she will lead the nearest thing Scotland has had to a serious tartan assault on a Classic in living memory.
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The company's delivery drivers are already a familiar sight around Scotland in their uniforms of tartan trousers or tartan shorts, and occasionally kilts.
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We had unyoked the horses and got astride, and when we came to the gate there was the bonny spaewife carrying a bairn in a tartan shawl.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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The narrative is set in 18th century Scotland with "deadly claymores flashing above plaid and tartan," and "clan-cries of the gillies, charging with their chiefs.
“Living hand to mouth. . .”
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This is partly because the much - maligned tartan tax has turned into a remarkably effective instrument of fiscal continence.
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I would send him sometimes snipe or golden plover from Kiltartan bog or woodcock from the hazel woods at Coole, hoping to tempt him with something that might better nourish the worn body than the little custard pudding that was used to serve him for his two days 'dinner, because of that "horrible dyspepsia" that often makes those who have been long in prison live starving after their release, mocked with the sight of food.
Our Irish Theatre: A Chapter of Autobiography
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As he walks up the final fairway, waving a new tartan bonnet, the crowd rise in tribute to a great champion.
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As she approached more closely, her mantle of bright tartan, in which the red colour much predominated, her stature, the long stride with which she advanced, and the writhen features and wild eyes which were visible from under her curch, would have made her no inadequate representative of the spirit which gave name to the valley.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Highland costume, with his plaid thrown about him, a large blue bonnet with a knot of black ribbon like a cockade, a brown short coat of a kind of duffil, a tartan waistcoat with gold buttons and gold button-holes, a bluish philibeg, and tartan hose.
Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.
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All that was lacking was our traditional sweetmeat, shortbread in a tartan tin.
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This was 1898, Edinburgh, a dreadful hotchpotch of thistles, tartan hatching, drooping highlanders, wounded stags.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He wore a pair of brogues, tartan hose which came up only near to his knees, and left them bare, a purple camblet kilt, a black waistcoat, a short green cloth coat bound with gold cord, a yellowish bushy wig, a large blue bonnet with a gold thread button.
Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
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The wallpaper was an overpowering red tartan, the carpet brown with red flowers.
LEFT, RIGHT AND CENTRE
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Her version of the plaid, a tartan also in silk, is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch.
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Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
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He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
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We also stock kilt hose, christening shawls, bedjackets, tartan scarves, ties etc. hand dyed wool and coned yarn for knitters and weavers.
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The British return to their heritage roots with tweed, gingham and tartan making a cool comeback.
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I would even be somewhat placated if William would just try out some tartan trews such as those his uncle Edward has occasionally sported on formal occasions.
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Chief investment officer Wendy Hay, dubbed Scotland's superwoman and a tartan version of City investment boss Nicola Horlick, was first to be directed to the exit door.
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Admittedly the competition isn't great: that wee bauchle Lulu; the Bay City Rollers, who always looked short on account of their shrunken tartan breeks; the aptly named Midge Ure; Wet Wet Wet, who were fond of kikicking in the gutters; and Simple Minds featuring the always crouching Jim Kerr.
Undefined
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As his love walked away into the night, the kilted supporter took solace in drink and song, as members of the Tartan Army do.
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The company designs and produces a huge range of tartans - one of which was recently modelled by Ewan McGregor.
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As she approached more closely, her mantle of bright tartan, in which the red colour much predominated, her stature, the long stride with which she advanced, and the writhen features and wild eyes which were visible from under her curch, would have made her no inadequate representative of the spirit which gave name to the valley.
Chronicles of the Canongate
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Much-too-tall Roddy Martine, the boulevardier of Leith Walk, lost an expensive new coat he'd bought while in New York for Tartan Day.
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She was wearing a black tank top and a red tartan mini-skirt with fishnet tights and black, leather, knee high boots.
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Inevitably - for the museum will cater to the tourist as much to the home-based enthusiast, one gallery is devoted to the Highland soldier whose kilts and tartans turned him into a romantic cult.
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There's no word on when the Brits began to make their pj's out of tartan flannelette, but you can be sure that the Victorians will have approved of the entirely sexless, shapeless garments that left much to the imagination.
What Not to Wear in Bed
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Tartan, yes; chalkstripe, tick; florals and geometrics, not so much.
Times, Sunday Times
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A tartan screen, and once a year a new cockernony from Paris, should serve a countess.
Redgauntlet
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Her hands trembled as she snooded her fair hair beneath the riband, then the only ornament or cover which young unmarried women wore on their head, and 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.
The Heart of Mid-Lothian
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Thank goodness Scotland invented tartan and the kilt and not the nylon shirt or the polyester jacket.
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Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
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Our tartan headsquare is made from 8oz lightweight wool and comes in over 500 tartans, our other triangles come in a heavier wool for a warmer feel.
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An exhibition exploring proportion in new and old tartans featuring woven Tartan in cashmere and merino wool.
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I asked him if he could make me a pair of tartan trews for evening wear and we instantly agreed on a pattern and he ushered me into his fitting room.
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First, he insults the national dress of Scotland by wearing that skirt masquerading as a kilt at the Tartan Day celebrations in New York.
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He was wearing a cream silk shirt and a tartan golfing cap.
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That thair cam tua men to her ane cled in blak and the uther with ane grein tartane plaid about him And that the man with the plaid said to her she was ane prettie And he wald lerne her to ken and sie ony thing she wald desyre ....
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology
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He would love to think that his part, however small, in Liverpool's restoration under Houllier has stoked the embers of the club's tartan tradition.
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The revival of the house of Burberry is having an impact too as checks and colourful tartans abound on trousers and skirts.
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This involves designing and manufacturing tartans for firms including ScottishPower, IF and Barbour.
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Let us go back in time where Scottish tartan denoted the clan you belonged too.
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I lie under a tartan rug and my fingers twist and plait its fringe.
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She wore a muslin mutch, fine but not much different from those of the old wives in the cottages, with a broad black ribbon round it tied in a large bow on the top of her head; and her shoulders were enveloped in a warm tartan shawl pinned at the neck with a silver brooch.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago
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In pubs and clubs, halls and meeting rooms, Scots dressed in tartan for this, the most traditional night in their social calendar, and to stand while the Haggis was piped in.
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Do we know if secreted about his smalls he has a pair of boxer shorts in either the ancient or red tartan of his venerable clanspersons?
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The Scottish have used tartan patterns for centuries to identify the clan, family or regiment with which the wearer is associated.
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Each of Scotland's clans has its own tartan, developed over the centuries.
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Davis believes Holyrood should use the tartan tax to cut income tax by 3%, even if that means Scots got a better deal than the English.
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When I do that you will let go the foresheet to help the tartane to fly into the wind's eye.
The Rover
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Luke in Clan MacNeil, Arne in the Sassenach 's Jacobean tartan.
THE THORN BIRDS
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The venerable Leith-based firm, best known for its Highland dress, kilts and tartans, boosted sales by around £4m from its pool of more than 80 menswear outlets in Japanese department stores last year.
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The sight of Andy Henderson standing on the wing still causes a cold sweat in tartan supporters, though at least Chris Cusiter's test debut proved memorable for the right reasons.
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If designing a new tartan will save the Scottish Socialist party from dying out completely, I'm willing to have a go.
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This is a world of baronial drip-dry tartan with a flat-pack bothy fit for murder and a ghost that oozes bloodily from a cardboard box, despite the bin-liner.
Macbeth, The Love for Three Oranges, Armida, A Midsummer Night's Dream
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She was long-waisted and heavy in the hips but hid it well beneath tailored black slacks and a Burberry raincoat, open to show off the signature white, tan, and black tartan lining.
Some Assembly Required
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Pottery, prints, pressed flowers of Tachnadray, tartan novelties, photographs of the ancestral home.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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The tartan check also appears on a special tag on the heel.
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He may well bear us out in a feud with the Highlandmen, and do the part of our provost and leader against them; but whether he that himself wears silk will take our part against broidered cloak and cloth of gold, though he may do so against tartan and Irish frieze, is something to be questioned.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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We are back to that old business of trying to create a new image of Scotland because foreigners, bless'em, think of the auld country only in terms of kilts and tartan and all that old-fashioned stuff.
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Tartan trews were introduced for the Scottish Lowland regiments.
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There was a time in the 80's when it looked as if the clans were gathering again to avenge Glencoe, so ubiquitous was the tartan kilt.
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Not for him even one of the 300,000 tartan fans specially produced by VisitScotland to promote Scotland in the States.
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Ye're aye cute, dame," I cried, thrawing the bit gy abune, and in a gliffing, doun jumpit the chiel, and a braw chiel he was sure enough, siccan my auld e'en sall ne'er see again, wi 'his brent brow and buirdly bowk wrappit in a tartan plaid, wi' a Highland kilt.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 289, December 22, 1827
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To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
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He grimaced and scratched his short, curly black hair where it stuck out from under his tartan cap.
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Come to visit the wounded, he was dressed for the occasion in plum velvet breeches with stockings to match, immaculate linen, and-to show solidarity with the troops, no doubt-a coat and waistcoat in Cameron tartan, with a subsidiary plaid looped over one shoulder through a cairngorm brooch.
Dragonfly in Amber
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One Scotswoman who is more than ready to apply is Margaret Kennedy , president of National Tartan Day ' s New York committee.
A Society
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As she unveils a tartan bustiere, he demands to know what she is doing, to which she replies:
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He is wearing a chocolate brown moleskin suit, a dark shirt and tartan clip-on braces, one of which has come adrift.
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Her version of the plaid, a tartan also in silk, is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch.
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And yet they made those wonderful clothes for other people - tweeds, cords, mohairs, checks, tartans.
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One evening, as myself and my brother, who was then a flaxen headed little fellow, dressed in kilt and tartans, were playing on the grass-plot just described, I saw a strange gentleman enter the postern; and, while we continued at our amusement, we sometimes looked up to remark on him to each other, as he walked to and fro in the pathway beyond the grass: for he appeared very different from the usual order of gentlemen we had seen.
The Scottish Chiefs
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The tartan, whatever it is, will provide a souvenir when he departs Scotland in June.
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So I propose that the Scottish Green party makes itself useful for a change and begins a campaign to stop the tartan despoliation of other people's places and stick to despoiling their own.
What next? A stag weekend on Kilimanjaro? | Kevin McKenna
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Sporting a tartan dinner suit, he was cheered and applauded as he accepted the silver statue.
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He wore a black coat and waistcoat, old-fashioned in style, with the folds of a tartan plaid draped over his shoulder, caught up with a brooch whose golden gleam was echoed by the ornamental knurl atop the dirk the old man held, his fingers bent and gnarled with arthritis.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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‘We have just acquired our own tartan,’ said the professor, showing off his new trews.
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The first is to prevent Scottish MPs from voting on issues that don't affect Scotland, but Blair needs his tartan army and so that is unlikely to happen.
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I like a bit splore, but give it to me in our old style, with the tartan instead of buff, and the target for breastplate and taslets.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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Blues used in tartan cloth originally came from the native plant woad, which was also used as a form of ceremonial face and body paint by ancient Scots.
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There are also two kilt shops, with Highland regalia for sale or hire, their windows dressed in swathes of tartan and accessories, dirks, sporrans and brogues.
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Not a car horn or police siren could be heard amid the skirl of the pipes of the annual Tartan Day celebrations.
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With this the refractory gouvernante began in great hurry to adjust her tartan mantle for going abroad, by pulling it so forwards as to conceal the white linen cap, the edges of which bordered her shrivelled but still fresh and healthful countenance.
The Fair Maid of Perth
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The band has worked hard raising funds for the tartan which cost around £1,000 to design and £300 to kit out each band member.
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What most people associate with ‘Scottishness’ - tartan kilts, whisky, bagpipes and tossing the caber - are traditions descended from the Gaelic Highlands.
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There, however, the tartana and the guide were ready; so, after taking a noonday’s repast with my fellow traveller at the posada, I set out with him on our journey.
The Alhambra
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The whole point of a tartan is to get many colours working together, weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern.
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Jack at last relented about my going to Tartan Day - but I had to fly on the cheapest economy ticket, while Jack and the rest of the nobs flew First.
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a crowd of clamorous porters and _tartana_ drivers -- one of the scenes characteristic of landing in a country where police regulations do not exist ensued.
Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II.
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But among the neatly stitched squares and rectangles of denim and canvas there is one of thick regimental tartan.
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Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
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Thus then we set out, ourlong-legged guard striding ahead, with his escopeta on his shoulder, Manuel and Mateo on each side of the tartana, and the old invalids behind.
The Alhambra
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The lowlander has inherited the hills, the Tartan is a shroud.
Filmstalker: McAvoy would like a Highland Clearances film
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Hers are a Highlander's dreams: obviously, the tartan plaid and tam-o'-shanter evince his Scottish affinity.
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Pipers wore black shoes, tartan hose, spats, kilt, jacket, full wrap around plaid and glengarry, with hat badge and shoulder brooch, and skeine dhu, permissible.
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He was wearing a tartan patterned lumberjack shirt and jeans.
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Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
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Tartan ties, scarves and even a map of the Scottish clans filled the window of the shop.
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Checks and tartans work best as daywear.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was quite a bit of tartan, along with the more traditionally sombre garb, and many smiles amidst the tears.
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In the absence of more tartan involvement, rest assured that some locals will settle for the next best thing, hoping to witness England tumble out of the competition, perhaps even on penalties.
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I thought of Kawaramachi Street where gangs of pigeon-toed teenagers traipsed up and down in Doc Martins and tartan mini-skirts.
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Well, the blankets are a medium blue, shot with lighter and darker shades that create a plaid tartan.
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Recently turned 50, John had his birthday presents to show off - a characteristically loud tartan suit and a beautiful shiny steel mandolin.
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But the Masonic tartan trews and kilts could be a bit of a giveaway.
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An old white-haired woman in a wheelchair, her legs covered by a tartan rug, wearing a canary yellow blouse.
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We're here in the bottom of an ashet; there's more than one deserter from your tartan on the outside of it, and once they get on the rim they have, by all rules strategic, the upper hand of us in some degree.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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A year later three politicians from Scotland's new Parliament travelled to Washington to witness Tartan Day and the seeds of an idea were planted.
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It won't be long now until it will be no longer safe to walk the streets, without hoards of mad students in tartan trousers and kaftans accosting you with home made fliers.
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He was wearing a cream silk shirt and a tartan golfing cap.
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Armed to the teeth and clad in kilt, tartan hose and bonnet, he looks every inch the clan chieftain.
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It's a veritable Winnie museum, a treasury of one woman's conceit of herself as the peppery, tartan Boadicea of truth, justice and parliamentary sub-committees.
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And yet they made those wonderful clothes for other people - tweeds, cords, mohairs, checks, tartans.
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Well, I have to wonder if the Scottish Executive will be using Meghrai's mugshot to promote Scotland's "compassionate" justice system when Alex Salmond smarms his way over here next "Tartan Day"?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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The dominant symbols of Scottish nationalism - the war-pipes, the military tartans, the Glengarry and so on - are a product of that.
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Some men wore red tartan skirts and adornments of beads, leopard skin head bands and bangles.
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In Scotland the red ribbon is tartan thanks to a campaign by the country's leading HIV / AIDS charity, Waverley Care.
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Inspee has really got the silk dustcloak but I think the tartan hood looks rather silly.
A Young Girl's Diary
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Turning, Colum picked up a silver quaich from its place on the tartan-covered table behind him.
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