0 a pattern of different coloured straight lines crossing each other at 90 degree angles, or a cloth with this pattern: --
a tartan kilt
1 a cloth woven in a pattern of different colored straight strips crossing each other at 90 angles, or the pattern itself; plaid: --
a tartan kilt
Where will it come from if not from the tartan tax?
They do not want their tartan to be taken from them, or interfered with in any way.
I shall name but a few—the social chapter, the minimum wage and the tartan tax.
The bogus paramedic may arrive at the scene of an accident in flying tartan colours.
I thought it better not to disillusion her because she was very taken with the combination of the tartan and the red hair.
After the rebellion of 1745 a law was passed forbidding either the wearing of the kilt or the wearing of tartan.
Nothing that breathes the heather or wears the tartan has been left outside.
That is a mantra as meaningless as the tartan tax.
