tartan
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- 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 .