PLAID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does plaid mean? 

• PLAID (noun)
  The noun PLAID has 1 sense:

1. a cloth having a crisscross design

  Familiarity information: PLAID used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PLAID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A cloth having a crisscross design

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

plaid; tartan

Hypernyms ("plaid" is a kind of...):

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

 Context examples 

It seemed to me to be something grey in colour, a coat of some sort, or a plaid perhaps.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

By the fire stood a little fellow of three years old, in plaid frock and trousers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

We went into the house, which was cheerfully lighted up, and into a hall where there were all sorts of hats, caps, great-coats, plaids, gloves, whips, and walking-sticks.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She stood a minute looking at the party vanishing above, and as Demi's short plaid legs toiled up the last stair, a sudden sense of loneliness came over her so strongly that she looked about her with dim eyes, as if to find something to lean upon, for even Teddy had deserted her.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line, her plaid cloak, which the frosty wind fluttered, gathered close about her, and encouraging us, by precept and example, to keep up our spirits, and march forward, as she said, like stalwart soldiers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher—shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind and whenever this happened the red, white and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut in a disapproving way.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)