PLAID

noun Etymology: Scottish Gaelic ~e Date: 1512 a rectangular length of tartan worn over the left shoulder as part of the Scottish national costume, 2. a twilled woolen fabric with a tartan pattern, a fabric with a pattern of tartan or an imitation of tartan, 3. tartan 1, a pattern of unevenly spaced repeated stripes crossing at right angles, ~ adjective ~ed adjective