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English
Etymology
From tartan + -ize.
Verb
tartanize (third-person singular simple present tartanizes, present participle tartanizing, simple past and past participle tartanized)
- (transitive) To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan.
2010, Ian McKay, Robin Bates, In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia:Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself.