Meaning of Tartans | Babel Free

Definitions

Clothes made from tartan fabric; specifically, full Highland dress.

plural, plural-only

Equivalents

Examples

“[A] chief in Highland pride; / His shoulders bear the hunter's bow, / The mountain dirk adorns his side, / Far on the wind his tartans flow […]”

“[T]hou shalt see a darksome man, / Who boasts him Chief of Alpine's clan, / With tartans broad and shadowy plume, / And hand of blood, and brow of gloom, […]”

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