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Meanings of shepherd's plaid in English

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Small-scale checkered design used in woven fabrics historically associated with the Anglo-Scottish Border country.

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Woollen blanket or plaid woven in a pattern of small checks, worn as outerwear in southern Scotland and northern England.

Synonyms
Examples for "maud"
Examples for "maud"
1
The captain looked grave; Mrs. Willoughby anxious; Beulah interested; and Maud thoughtful.
Wyandotté; Or, The Hutted Knoll: A Tale
2
She was in the dining-room; in the parlour Maud was practising music.
New Grub Street
3
The spectacled peer took in Lady Maud, and the men straggled in.
The Primadonna / A Sequel to "Fair Margaret"
4
Genevieve Maud reclined in a geranium-bed in an attitude of unstudied ease.
Many Kingdoms
5
Cork-based artist Maud Cotter wanted a combined living space and work studio.
The Irish Times
Usage of shepherd's plaid in English
1
Trousers and waistcoat, shepherd's plaid; coat, dark blue cloth lined with sable.
Henry Dunbar: A Novel
2
He had two caps, one of blue serge, the other of shepherd's plaid.
A Christmas Garland
3
One sentry tramps outside the door, and you pay your respects to the Governor in shepherd's plaid.
From Capetown to Ladysmith: An Unfinished Record of the South Af...
4
They could scarcely believe their eyes, when they saw her riding by in a plain bonnet, and enveloped in a simple shepherd's plaid.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
5
Violet is wrapped in her shepherd's plaid, the corner twisted into a bewitching hood and surmounted by a cluster of black ribbon bows.
Floyd Grandon's Honor
6
In his short black coat, trousers of shepherd's plaid, and knotted white tie bearing a neat horseshoe pin, he looked smart yet soldierly.
The Extra Day
7
She wore a faded alpaca gown, patched here and there, a shawl of shepherd's plaid stained with the weather, and a nondescript bonnet.
Noughts and Crosses: Stories, Studies and Sketches
8
"Grey trousers and waistcoat, small shepherd's plaid, and he must have taken a greatcoat lined with Russian sable."
Henry Dunbar: A Novel
9
"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.
Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman