tartan

Example Sentences

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The Ramones had songs based on “Saturday Night,” and they dressed in the tartan plaids of Queens, which is the black leather jackets.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

William watched as his wife, Catherine, known as Kate, tried her hand at helping weave a two-mile-long tartan scarf at a mental health charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 11, 2026

But this is not the first time tartan has emerged as a popular print within fashion.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

The 30-year-old designer says she wants to maintain this pride in traditional tartan but with a fashionable, ready-to-wear approach.

From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026

Then we checked the latest issues of Ingenue and Mademoiselle and Seventeen and decided we’d get box-pleated skirts in tartan plaid—green—for the first day of school.

From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English