Tartan
- Proper noun. The commander-in-chief of ancient Assyria.
- Noun. 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.
- Noun. The pattern associated with such material.
- Noun. An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
- Noun. Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
- Adjective. Having a pattern like a tartan.
- Adjective. (humorous) Scottish.
- Verb. (transitive) To clothe in tartan.
- Noun. A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
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