Citations:tartan

English citations of tartan

Etymology 1

Verb

1. (transitive) Also Tartan: to apply tartan (noun sense 3) to (a running track or some other place).
   • 1971 November 15, John Underwood, “New Slant on the Mod Sod”, in Sports Illustrated, volume 35, number 20, Chicago, Ill.: Time Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 33, column 2:

     In Kansas City a crusade led by a draftsman named E. L. Ruble Jr. got under way to prevent the Tartaning of the new Truman Sports Complex. Ruble called it a "grass roots" campaign and if his efforts appeared quixotic his voice was soulful as he spoke of the sterility of artificial surfaces and the beauty of a memory he had of Chief Defensive End Jerry Mays walking off the field covered with mud.