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Definition of Plaids
1. plaid [n] - See also: plaid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Plaids
Literary usage of Plaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It may be chequered or not; but the English use of the word in such a compound
as Scotch-plaids, meaning chequered cloth, is a blunder for Scotch tartans. ..."
2. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... probably because it was made of the same party-coloured cloth with their
plaids ; as Breac in that language signifies anything that is party-coloured. ..."
3. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1827)
"She lay on the ground, on which he had caused several plaids to be spread to make
her a couch ; and her head still leaned on his bosom, when she opened her ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"... the author adds, in the pastoral counties in the south of Scotland are actually
a finer sort of blankets: and so are the plaids worn by the wive* and ..."
5. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"... checked cottons or Scotch plaids, as aforesaid, to seize and take away the
same, to their own use, ..."
6. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"... checked cottons or Scotch plaids, as aforesaid, to seize and take away the
same, to their own use, benefit and behoof, any law, usage or custom to the ..."
7. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"It may be chequered or not; but the English use of the word in such a compound
as Scotch-plaids, meaning chequered cloth, is a blunder for Scotch tartans. ..."
8. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"... probably because it was made of the same party-coloured cloth with their
plaids ; as Breac in that language signifies anything that is party-coloured. ..."
9. The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter (1827)
"She lay on the ground, on which he had caused several plaids to be spread to make
her a couch ; and her head still leaned on his bosom, when she opened her ..."
10. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1840)
"... the author adds, in the pastoral counties in the south of Scotland are actually
a finer sort of blankets: and so are the plaids worn by the wive* and ..."
11. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"... checked cottons or Scotch plaids, as aforesaid, to seize and take away the
same, to their own use, ..."
12. Oddities of Colonial Legislation in America: As Applied to the Public Lands by John Brown Dillon, Ben Douglass (1879)
"... checked cottons or Scotch plaids, as aforesaid, to seize and take away the
same, to their own use, benefit and behoof, any law, usage or custom to the ..."
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