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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tartans, such as: jumble, mishmash, plaid, tartan, check, and confusion.
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How to use tartans in a sentence
And now a shopkeeper has filled his window with royal Stuart tartans, and I am instantly a Jacobite.
PENELOPE'S EXPERIENCES IN SCOTLANDKATE DOUGLAS WIGGINThen back again they swung, and this time it was to the "Cock of the North," that their tartans swayed and their bonnets nodded.
CORPORAL CAMERONRALPH CONNORThe ancient Highland tartans were dyed with bark of alder for black, bark of willow for flesh colour.
NEEDLEWORK AS ARTMARIAN ALFORD"There she goes," sneered an Englishman, as a Highlander marched past in his tartans at a fair.
SCOTCH WIT AND HUMORW. H. (WALTER HENRY) HOWEBut the tartans waved and the bagpipes shrilled in vain, and the Blue Bonnets did not go over the Border.
HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS IN THE BORDERANDREW LANGThen this figure-head-surgeon gave him another nose, and touched up one eye, and repaired a rent in his tartans.
REDBURN. HIS FIRST VOYAGEHERMAN MELVILLESo with those curious tartans to which the Scottish highlanders are—er—addicted.
MAJOR VIGOUREUXA. T. QUILLER-COUCHA thousand kilted Maories dotted the green landscape with patches of brilliant tartans and scarlet cloth.
GREATER BRITAINCHARLES WENTWORTH DILKEA perfectly natural reaction appeared to urge the ci-devant mourners to robe themselves in lively checks and tartans.
A VERSAILLES CHRISTMAS-TIDEMARY STUART BOYDTartans—The full Highland dress, made of the chequered stuff so termed.
MINSTRELSY OF THE SCOTTISH BORDER VOLUME III (OF 3)WALTER SCOTT