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Definition of Tartaned
1. clad in tartan [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tartaned
Literary usage of Tartaned
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"It comes to us tartaned with the romance of Miss Porter's Scottish Chiefs.
The heroic Wallace, after eight years' warfare in his native mountains with all ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... headstones seated, Some on mounds of wild thyme balm, Grave-browed men and
tartaned matrons . ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... cads who send tips, declared not only that Macgregor (behold his tartaned
likeness)would win, but that nothing eke had any chance. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1889)
"The Castle crag, rising up with its mantle of green, stately and straight like
one of its own plumed and tartaned sentinels, keeping the watch of centuries ..."
5. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1841)
"... I see her face the first of Ireland's sons,* And even out-Irish his Hibernian
bronze ; The crafty colonel f leaves the tartaned lines For other wars, ..."
6. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England: From by John Campbell Campbell (1857)
"... and hand-bills were hawked through the streets, representing that the tartaned
Highlanders not only violated virgins, but ate young children for supper. ..."
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