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   tartan

   /ˈtɑːt(ə)n/

   noun

   • 1. a woollen cloth woven in one of several patterns of coloured checks and intersecting lines, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan: "stripes and tartans have replaced floral chintzes"

   adjective

   • 1. used allusively in reference to Scotland or the Scots: "the financing proposals for the Scottish parliament amounted to a tartan tax"

   Word Origin late 15th century (originally Scots): perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare with tartarin, a rich fabric formerly imported from the east through Tartary.

   Scrabble Points: 6

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