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tartan

tor tuhn

  • n  a cloth having a crisscross design

  • If tartan-plaid skirts and cable-knit sweaters had never existed, if the English gentry had never lived, if Virginia horse country and the Rocky Mountains had never been, Ralph .
  • Showing up on everything from plates to powder compacts, tartan is this winter's favorite pattern.
  • When local police arrived at the temple, they unzipped the bulky, black bag to find the corpse of a young Taiwanese man, naked except for a pair of tartan boxer shorts wrapped .
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  • Walter Smith in Grantham Journal
    Smith added: "Personally, I would have been comfortable with all four of the candidates. They all had the assets we were looking for and that was a big factor. George came out on top because of certain aspects. I'm sure that the Tartan Army will be...
  • Michael Stoute in guardian.co.uk
    Stoute said: "It's nice to watch, especially when the third got back up. I'm very proud of them - they've all ran great races. The others [Tartan Bearer and Ask] are top-class horses. They are lovely, sound horses."
  • Ryan Moore in guardian.co.uk
    It was not a nice choice to have. Tartan Bearer is a lovely horse, so it wasn't easy,Moore said. "I didn't think I'd ride another horse in front of Tartan Bearer ...... but the other lad is a Breeders' Cup winner and has the form in the...

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