tartan

Example Sentences

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In its nearly 173 years as a state, California has officially declared a state reptile, a state marine mammal, a state dinosaur, a state dance and a state tartan.

From New York Times

Among the White House visitors shown in the drawings are a Scottish military officer wearing a tartan kilt, a woman wearing a yellow dress and a sash reading “Miss America,” and U.S.

From New York Times

On TV, we had the White Heather Club - women in white frocks and tartan sashes dancing impossibly complicated reels and strathspeys; men in kilts playing accordions and singing kitsch songs about exile and nostalgia.

From BBC

She sometimes wears glasses and was last seen wearing a turquoise fleece, a maroon tartan scarf and brown hat.

From BBC

She was wearing a grey coat, a turquoise cardigan, a red tartan scarf and a brown bobble hat.

From BBC