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plaided en · ADJ

Etymology

From plaid + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.
    • In plaided vest. c. 1806–1809 (date written), William Wordsworth, “Book First. The Wanderer.”, in The Excursion, being a Portion of The Recluse, a Poem, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1814, →OCLC, page 2:
  2. (not-comparable) Wearing a plaid.
    • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song, No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain, No plumed and plaided clans those hills among, Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain? 1854, William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn:

Deriveds

unplaided