tartans

See also: tårtans

English

Etymology

From tartan +‎ -s (suffix forming pluralia tantum and plural forms of nouns; and third-person singular simple present indicative forms of regular verbs).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːt(ə)nz/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɹtn̩z/, [-ɾn̩z]
• (Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑɹt(ə)nz/, /ˈtæɹ-/
• Hyphenation: tar‧tans

Noun

tartans pl (plural only)

1. Clothes made from tartan fabric; specifically, full Highland dress.
   • 1798 (date written; published 1800), “Glenfinlas, or Lord Ronald’s Coronach”, in Walter Scott, editor, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border: […], volume II, Kelso, Roxburghshire: […] James Ballantyne, for T[homas] Cadell Jun. and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and sold by Manners and Miller, and A[rchibald] Constable, […], →OCLC, 3rd part (Imitations of the Ancient Ballad), page 384:

     [A] chief in Highland pride; / His shoulders bear the hunter's bow, / The mountain dirk adorns his side, / Far on the wind his tartans flow […]

   • 1810, Walter Scott, “Canto IV. The Prophecy.”, in The Lady of the Lake; […], Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for John Ballantyne and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, →OCLC, stanza XXVII, page 181:

     [T]hou shalt see a darksome man, / Who boasts him Chief of Alpine's clan, / With tartans broad and shadowy plume, / And hand of blood, and brow of gloom, […]

Translations

clothes made from tartan fabric; full Highland dress

Noun

tartans

1. plural of tartan

Verb

tartans

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of tartan

Anagrams

• Rattans, rattans, tantras, transat

Dutch

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Noun

tartans

1. plural of tartan