tartan1
noun ˈtɑːt(ə)nˈtɑrtn
A woollen cloth woven in one of several patterns of coloured checks and intersecting lines, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan.
格子呢（尤指苏格兰格子呢）stripes and tartans have replaced floral chintzesas modifier a tartan shortbread tin- The company designs and produces a huge range of tartans - one of which was recently modelled by Ewan McGregor.
- Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable.
- This involves designing and manufacturing tartans for firms including ScottishPower, IF and Barbour.
- Each of Scotland's clans has its own tartan, developed over the centuries.
- In his own defence, he discloses that, though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit, he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side, which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.
- The dominant symbols of Scottish nationalism - the war-pipes, the military tartans, the Glengarry and so on - are a product of that.
- If designing a new tartan will save the Scottish Socialist party from dying out completely, I'm willing to have a go.
- The company directors of Beartas designed a new tartan, woven in Harris Tweed and called the ‘Isle of Harris Tartan’.
- Her version of the plaid, a tartan also in silk, is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch.
- The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan.
- He was wearing a tartan patterned lumberjack shirt and jeans.
- The band has worked hard raising funds for the tartan which cost around £1,000 to design and £300 to kit out each band member.
- As tartans became fashionable, their colours were determined by the dyes from clan plants - broom and gorse, symbols of the Sinclairs, Sutherlands and Maclennans, provided yellows.
- We had our tartans woven at a mill that makes only tartans.
- The whole point of a tartan is to get many colours working together, weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern.
- The revival of the house of Burberry is having an impact too as checks and colourful tartans abound on trousers and skirts.
- And yet they made those wonderful clothes for other people - tweeds, cords, mohairs, checks, tartans.
- Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.
- Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
- Instead, tartans probably were regionally based with different patterns belonging to different areas of the country.
adjectiveˈtɑːt(ə)nˈtɑrtn
Used allusively in reference to Scotland or the Scots.
苏格兰的；苏格兰人的the financing proposals for the Scottish parliament amounted to a tartan tax对苏格兰议会来说，财政提议就等于是苏格兰税收。
- The issue has become significant because it is the only fiscal power the Scottish parliament has, short of the 3p up or down in basic rate income tax - but don't expect the tartan tax to be used in the next five years.
- As the name would suggest, the outstanding All Black, No 8 Scott Robertson, includes some tartan genes, courtesy of a Perthshire-born grandfather.
- Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
- Alba may be Gaelic for Scotland, but when it comes to the Glasgow-based insurance company, it should be anything but a source of tartan pride.
- This is partly because the much - maligned tartan tax has turned into a remarkably effective instrument of fiscal continence.
- Is it any wonder resentment is now building over Tony's tartan army?
- Alex Ferguson picking up top coach last year was the nearest we've been to basking in any reflected tartan glory since Liz McColgan did the biz in 1991.
- He would love to think that his part, however small, in Liverpool's restoration under Houllier has stoked the embers of the club's tartan tradition.
- Davis believes Holyrood should use the tartan tax to cut income tax by 3%, even if that means Scots got a better deal than the English.
- To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
- In the absence of more tartan involvement, rest assured that some locals will settle for the next best thing, hoping to witness England tumble out of the competition, perhaps even on penalties.
- The first is to prevent Scottish MPs from voting on issues that don't affect Scotland, but Blair needs his tartan army and so that is unlikely to happen.
- In Scotland the red ribbon is tartan thanks to a campaign by the country's leading HIV / AIDS charity, Waverley Care.
- Chief investment officer Wendy Hay, dubbed Scotland's superwoman and a tartan version of City investment boss Nicola Horlick, was first to be directed to the exit door.
- For those who know Mackenzie primarily as the author of whimsical tartan entertainments such as Whisky Galore, this bitter book comes as something of a revelation.
- Not for him even one of the 300,000 tartan fans specially produced by VisitScotland to promote Scotland in the States.
- This afternoon she will lead the nearest thing Scotland has had to a serious tartan assault on a Classic in living memory.
- Meanwhile, in the Mail's tartan edition, Mr Bartholomew had changed his tune somewhat, recommending to the rag's Scottish readers that they'd be better off staying put.
- The first is a negative tartan tax to incentivise business location in Scotland.
- The sight of Andy Henderson standing on the wing still causes a cold sweat in tartan supporters, though at least Chris Cusiter's test debut proved memorable for the right reasons.
Origin
Late 15th century (originally Scots): perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare with tartarin, a rich fabric formerly imported from the east through Tartary.
Rhymes
Akhenaten, Akhetaten, Aten, Barton, carton, Dumbarton, hearten, Parton, smarten, spartan
tartan2
noun ˈtɑːt(ə)nˈtɑrtn
historical A lateen-rigged, single-masted ship used in the Mediterranean.
〈史〉（地中海上用的）单桅小帆船- The tartan was a small vessel that navigated along the coast of the Mediterranean.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French tartane, from Italian tartana, perhaps from Arabic ṭarīda.
tartan1
nounˈtärtnˈtɑrtn
A woolen cloth woven in one of several patterns of plaid, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan.
格子呢（尤指苏格兰格子呢）stripes and tartans have replaced floral chintzesas modifier a tartan shortbread tin- Her version of the plaid, a tartan also in silk, is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch.
- Instead of the typical clan tartans, the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.
- We had our tartans woven at a mill that makes only tartans.
- As tartans became fashionable, their colours were determined by the dyes from clan plants - broom and gorse, symbols of the Sinclairs, Sutherlands and Maclennans, provided yellows.
- In his own defence, he discloses that, though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit, he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side, which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.
- And yet they made those wonderful clothes for other people - tweeds, cords, mohairs, checks, tartans.
- Clans, tartans, and Highlands, with the help of the Queen herself, had become utterly British and quite fashionable.
- Instead, tartans probably were regionally based with different patterns belonging to different areas of the country.
- The dominant symbols of Scottish nationalism - the war-pipes, the military tartans, the Glengarry and so on - are a product of that.
- Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.
- The company directors of Beartas designed a new tartan, woven in Harris Tweed and called the ‘Isle of Harris Tartan’.
- He was wearing a tartan patterned lumberjack shirt and jeans.
- Each of Scotland's clans has its own tartan, developed over the centuries.
- This involves designing and manufacturing tartans for firms including ScottishPower, IF and Barbour.
- The whole point of a tartan is to get many colours working together, weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern.
- If designing a new tartan will save the Scottish Socialist party from dying out completely, I'm willing to have a go.
- The revival of the house of Burberry is having an impact too as checks and colourful tartans abound on trousers and skirts.
- The band has worked hard raising funds for the tartan which cost around £1,000 to design and £300 to kit out each band member.
- The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan.
- The company designs and produces a huge range of tartans - one of which was recently modelled by Ewan McGregor.
adjectiveˈtärtnˈtɑrtn
Used allusively in reference to Scotland or the Scots.
苏格兰的；苏格兰人的the financing proposals for the Scottish parliament amounted to a tartan tax对苏格兰议会来说，财政提议就等于是苏格兰税收。
- Alba may be Gaelic for Scotland, but when it comes to the Glasgow-based insurance company, it should be anything but a source of tartan pride.
- As the name would suggest, the outstanding All Black, No 8 Scott Robertson, includes some tartan genes, courtesy of a Perthshire-born grandfather.
- Not for him even one of the 300,000 tartan fans specially produced by VisitScotland to promote Scotland in the States.
- The issue has become significant because it is the only fiscal power the Scottish parliament has, short of the 3p up or down in basic rate income tax - but don't expect the tartan tax to be used in the next five years.
- Alex Ferguson picking up top coach last year was the nearest we've been to basking in any reflected tartan glory since Liz McColgan did the biz in 1991.
- For those who know Mackenzie primarily as the author of whimsical tartan entertainments such as Whisky Galore, this bitter book comes as something of a revelation.
- The first is to prevent Scottish MPs from voting on issues that don't affect Scotland, but Blair needs his tartan army and so that is unlikely to happen.
- To date, yes: we've peddled tartan schlock in the form of hokum Burns Night suppers to generations of tourists so we can't blame them for finding novelty in the trappings of the occasion.
- The first is a negative tartan tax to incentivise business location in Scotland.
- Meanwhile, in the Mail's tartan edition, Mr Bartholomew had changed his tune somewhat, recommending to the rag's Scottish readers that they'd be better off staying put.
- Chief investment officer Wendy Hay, dubbed Scotland's superwoman and a tartan version of City investment boss Nicola Horlick, was first to be directed to the exit door.
- This afternoon she will lead the nearest thing Scotland has had to a serious tartan assault on a Classic in living memory.
- In the absence of more tartan involvement, rest assured that some locals will settle for the next best thing, hoping to witness England tumble out of the competition, perhaps even on penalties.
- Is it any wonder resentment is now building over Tony's tartan army?
- Scotland isn't just tartan fun and highland jinks, it's urban youth culture as well.
- The sight of Andy Henderson standing on the wing still causes a cold sweat in tartan supporters, though at least Chris Cusiter's test debut proved memorable for the right reasons.
- In Scotland the red ribbon is tartan thanks to a campaign by the country's leading HIV / AIDS charity, Waverley Care.
- This is partly because the much - maligned tartan tax has turned into a remarkably effective instrument of fiscal continence.
- Davis believes Holyrood should use the tartan tax to cut income tax by 3%, even if that means Scots got a better deal than the English.
- He would love to think that his part, however small, in Liverpool's restoration under Houllier has stoked the embers of the club's tartan tradition.
Origin
Late 15th century (originally Scots): perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare with tartarin, a rich fabric formerly imported from the east through Tartary.
tartan2
nounˈtärtnˈtɑrtn
historical A lateen-rigged, single-masted ship used in the Mediterranean.
〈史〉（地中海上用的）单桅小帆船- The tartan was a small vessel that navigated along the coast of the Mediterranean.
Origin
Early 17th century: from French tartane, from Italian tartana, perhaps from Arabic ṭarīda.