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tartans

noun as in patchwork

noun as in check

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Example Sentences

And now a shopkeeper has filled his window with royal Stuart tartans, and I am instantly a Jacobite.

Then back again they swung, and this time it was to the "Cock of the North," that their tartans swayed and their bonnets nodded.

The ancient Highland tartans were dyed with bark of alder for black, bark of willow for flesh colour.

"There she goes," sneered an Englishman, as a Highlander marched past in his tartans at a fair.

But the tartans waved and the bagpipes shrilled in vain, and the Blue Bonnets did not go over the Border.

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On this page you'll find 26 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tartans, such as: jumble, mishmash, plaid, tartan, check, and confusion.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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