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.
1 Trousers and waistcoat, shepherd 's plaid ; coat, dark blue cloth lined with sable.
2 He had two caps, one of blue serge, the other of shepherd 's plaid .
3 One sentry tramps outside the door, and you pay your respects to the Governor in shepherd 's plaid .
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 .
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.
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.
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.
8 "Grey trousers and waistcoat, small shepherd 's plaid , and he must have taken a greatcoat lined with Russian sable."
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.
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