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Meanings of shepherd's plaid in English
Small-scale checkered design used in woven fabrics historically associated with the Anglo-Scottish Border country.
Woollen blanket or plaid woven in a pattern of small checks, worn as outerwear in southern Scotland and northern England.
Synonyms
Examples for "border tartan"
Examples for "border tartan"
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In this space lay a large and heavy flagstone with a rusted iron ring in the centre to which a thick shepherd's-check muffler was attached.
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It will adapt transport infrastructure for security and external border check purposes.
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Wind through the concrete vents of a border check-point.
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My name and description by now are on every immigration desk and border check in Europe.
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However, Pakistan says it maintains 1,100 border check posts and does its best to stop the flow.
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Trucks are pictured at a custom terminal at the border check point near Brest, November 5, 2014.
Usage of shepherd's plaid in English
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Trousers and waistcoat, shepherd's plaid; coat, dark blue cloth lined with sable.
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He had two caps, one of blue serge, the other of shepherd's plaid.
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One sentry tramps outside the door, and you pay your respects to the Governor in shepherd's plaid.
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They could scarcely believe their eyes, when they saw her riding by in a plain bonnet, and enveloped in a simple shepherd's plaid.
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Violet is wrapped in her shepherd's plaid, the corner twisted into a bewitching hood and surmounted by a cluster of black ribbon bows.
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In his short black coat, trousers of shepherd's plaid, and knotted white tie bearing a neat horseshoe pin, he looked smart yet soldierly.
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She wore a faded alpaca gown, patched here and there, a shawl of shepherd's plaid stained with the weather, and a nondescript bonnet.
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"Grey trousers and waistcoat, small shepherd's plaid, and he must have taken a greatcoat lined with Russian sable."
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"Oh, 'tain't so bad considering the H. C. of L.," put in a middle-aged man in a very tight Shepherd's plaid suit.