Tartan

Definition

tartan /'tɑ:tn/ n (က) [C, U] ေတာင္ေပၚကုန္းျမင့္ေနစေကာ့မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စု အလိုက္ ဝတ္စံုတြင္ တစ္ညီတည္းပံုေဖာ္သည့္ ေရာင္စံုအကြက္ အဆင္။ the traditional MacLeod tartan. (ခ) [U] ထိုအကြက္ အဆင္ရက္ထားေသာ အထည္။ a tartan skirt.

Examples

1. ‘Clans
2. tartans
3. and Highlands
4. with the help of the Queen herself
5. had become utterly British and quite fashionable.’
6. ‘Instead
7. tartans probably were regionally based with different patterns belonging to different areas of the country.’
8. ‘The hills were awash with frost and snow and yet nobody dared wear anything but the clan tartan.’
9. ‘The company directors of Beartas designed a new tartan
10. woven in Harris Tweed and called the ‘Isle of Harris Tartan’.’
11. ‘The whole point of a tartan is to get many colours working together
12. weaving themselves into a beautiful pattern.’
13. ‘Her version of the plaid
14. a tartan also in silk
15. is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch.’
16. ‘If designing a new tartan will save the Scottish Socialist party from dying out completely
17. I'm willing to have a go.’
18. ‘The dominant symbols of Scottish nationalism - the war-pipes
19. the military tartans
20. the Glengarry and so on - are a product of that.’
21. ‘The company designs and produces a huge range of tartans - one of which was recently modelled by Ewan McGregor.’
22. ‘In his own defence
23. he discloses that
24. though he is a Londoner to his pearly suit
25. he is nevertheless one-eighth Scottish on his mother's side
26. which doesn't even qualify him for a clan tartan.’
27. ‘As tartans became fashionable
28. their colours were determined by the dyes from clan plants - broom and gorse
29. symbols of the Sinclairs
30. Sutherlands and Maclennans
31. provided yellows.’
32. ‘This involves designing and manufacturing tartans for firms including ScottishPower
33. IF and Barbour.’
34. ‘He was wearing a tartan patterned lumberjack shirt and jeans.’
35. ‘Each of Scotland's clans has its own tartan
36. developed over the centuries.’
37. ‘The revival of the house of Burberry is having an impact too as checks and colourful tartans abound on trousers and skirts.’
38. ‘The band has worked hard raising funds for the tartan which cost around £1
39. 000 to design and £300 to kit out each band member.’
40. ‘We had our tartans woven at a mill that makes only tartans.’
41. ‘Instead of the typical clan tartans
42. the Orkney ferry is decorated with posters of dragon-bowed great boats and warriors in horned helmets shoving flaming coffins out into the waves.’
43. ‘And yet they made those wonderful clothes for other people - tweeds
44. cords
45. mohairs
46. checks
47. tartans.’
48. ‘Symbols that evoke the past of the Highlands include the system of clan tartans and bagpipes.’