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English
Etymology
From tartan + -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).
Pronunciation
Noun
tartans pl (plural only)
- Clothes made from tartan fabric; specifically, full Highland dress.
1798 (date written; published 1800), “Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald’s Coronach”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: , volume II, Kelso, Roxburghshire: James Ballantyne, for T Cadell Jun. and W Davies, ; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A Constable, , →OCLC, 3rd part (Imitations of the Ancient Ballad), page 384: chief in Highland pride; / His shoulders bear the hunter's bow, / The mountain dirk adorns his side, / Far on the wind his tartans flow […]
1810, Walter Scott, “Canto IV. The Prophecy.”, in The Lady of the Lake; , Edinburgh: [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 181: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, […]
Translations
clothes made from tartan fabric; full Highland dress
Noun
tartans
- plural of tartan
Verb
tartans
- third-person singular simple present indicative of tartan
Anagrams
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Pronunciation
Noun
tartans
- plural of tartan