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TARTAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tartan mean?
• TARTAN (noun)
The noun TARTAN has 1 sense:
1. a cloth having a crisscross design
Familiarity information: TARTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cloth having a crisscross design
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
plaid; tartan
Hypernyms ("tartan" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Context examples
When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans, with wine, food, and powder.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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