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Meaning of plaiden | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A coarse, woollen cloth

Scotland

Examples

“To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain.”
“It is miserably poor, and much out of the way, and produces no better commodities than plaiden webs, green kale, and handsome lads and lasses.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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