tartan

Example Sentences

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Among the White House visitors shown in the drawings are a Scottish military officer wearing a tartan kilt, a woman wearing a yellow dress and a sash reading “Miss America,” and U.S.

From New York Times

On TV, we had the White Heather Club - women in white frocks and tartan sashes dancing impossibly complicated reels and strathspeys; men in kilts playing accordions and singing kitsch songs about exile and nostalgia.

From BBC

No prouder Scotsman has worn the jersey or paraded the tartan with such gusto, but most of all he wanted to have a laugh.

From BBC

A tartan cap, a nod to his Celtic roots, sits next to him on the sofa in his living room, at home in Hessle.

From BBC

Ralph Lauren’s Home line allows the well-heeled among us to live that fantasy — tartan, wood paneling, sterling silver dishware, equestrian imagery — every day.

From Los Angeles Times