"Tartan" is correct and usable in written English
It is typically used as a noun and refers to a type of fabric with a distinctive crisscross pattern, typically consisting of stripes in multiple colors. For example, "The man wore a bright tartan kilt to the wedding."
The Scots should be wearing belted plaid, or the rather fetching skintight tartan trews sported by Mary's father, James V. The Scotsmen tell Mary she must marry.
There's a still more thought-provoking approach in the German book Duck, Death and the Tulip, in which Duck becomes aware, one day, that someone with a skull for a head, and a rather natty tartan coat, is following her everywhere.
An example of something gallus, he said, would be Usain Bolt's donning of a tartan tam o'shanter after winning gold with Jamaica's 4x100m relay team on Saturday night.
I lay under the crisp white sheets, warmed by a tartan blanket, trying to read but really just imagining the passing landscape, not wanting to sleep... 6am: somewhere outside Plymouth.
She had been a friendly, bolshy and academically successful teenager, who loved watching M*A*S*H and wearing the tartan shorts beloved of her favourite band, the Bay City Rollers.
The clothes here fitted with the established aesthetic in menswear – there were citrus hued puffa jackets, bright sweaters and a lot of the green and blue tartan that has become the trademark of the Lauren clan.
His considerable political accomplishment has been to mould a ragged band of tartan-clad romantics and North Sea resource-grabbers into a modern nationalist party with a ragged economic case for separation from Britain.
Do they want, for example, velvet hooded dresses or harsh neon coloured tartans and animal prints, or heavy shoulder cut-outs?
Romanticism, tartans and kilts were not an invention of the Scots who fought for Scotland but largely the result of a 100-year campaign by the establishment, though it failed to hide its direct encouragement of and connection with past horrors and socially destructive commercial investments.
Terribly written and so condensed that the clotted history it tells is accessible only to tartaned anoraks.
Freedom then Words can kill ReprintsIN 1908 a tobacco company, John Player and Sons, enclosed in its cigarette packets cards portraying Scottish Highlanders wearing kilts woven in different tartans.
