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Definition of Plaidings
1. plaiding [n] - See also: plaiding
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaidings
Literary usage of Plaidings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by David Bremner (1869)
"... do a considerable trade in making blankets, flannels, plaidings, and various
kinds of woollen wearing apparel. A few miles from Ayr, in the parish of ..."
2. Reminiscences of Dollar, Tillicoultry, and Other Districts Adjoining the by William Gibson (1883)
"The yarn was spun by the women of the parish, and also in the Highlands beyond,
on their spinning wheels ; woven into blankets and plaidings, and sold in ..."
3. The Clothier and Furnisher (1894)
"They are called check-plaidings. They are in frosted weave one-quarter inch ...
THERE is also a f-inch square in the check plaidings, in color blendings of ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"... to have the tea masket by the time he would come, and as James was setting-
bye the tartans and plaidings that stood at the ..."
5. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... Tufted plaidings, Shapes and shadings; All the mystery Now is history ; And
we see the reason subtle Why the weaver makes his shuttle, Hither, thither, ..."
6. The Industries of Scotland: Their Rise, Progress, and Present Condition by David Bremner (1869)
"... do a considerable trade in making blankets, flannels, plaidings, and various
kinds of woollen wearing apparel. A few miles from Ayr, in the parish of ..."
7. Reminiscences of Dollar, Tillicoultry, and Other Districts Adjoining the by William Gibson (1883)
"The yarn was spun by the women of the parish, and also in the Highlands beyond,
on their spinning wheels ; woven into blankets and plaidings, and sold in ..."
8. The Clothier and Furnisher (1894)
"They are called check-plaidings. They are in frosted weave one-quarter inch ...
THERE is also a f-inch square in the check plaidings, in color blendings of ..."
9. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1821)
"... to have the tea masket by the time he would come, and as James was setting-
bye the tartans and plaidings that stood at the ..."
10. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1860)
"... Tufted plaidings, Shapes and shadings; All the mystery Now is history ; And
we see the reason subtle Why the weaver makes his shuttle, Hither, thither, ..."
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