tartan

A vessel used in the Mediterranean for commercial and other purposes.

A woolen or worsted cloth woven with lines or stripes of different colors crossing each other at right angles so as to form a definite pattern.

The design or “set”of the colors in the cloth known as tartan. See set, n., 14.

The check peculiar to this cloth. Also shepherd’s plaid.

Variegated with the cross-barred bands and stripes of color characteristic of the Scottish tartans, or with patterns of a similar kind.

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.

A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.

A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.

The pattern associated with such material.