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How to pronounce “tartan”
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Pronunciation guide for tartan
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of tartan with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 2 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex 18 minutes
because you have to count all the whisky and the tartan.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
Example 1 of 2
How to pronounce tartan
Tim Harford: Trial, error and the God complex 18 minutes
because you have to count all the whisky and the tartan.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “tartan”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) Woven woollen fabric with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles originally associated with Scottish Highlanders, now with different clans (though this only dates from the late 18th century) and some Scottish families and institutions having their own patterns; (countable) a particular type of such fabric.
- (figurative)
- (uncountable, chiefly attributive) Originally a trade name in the form Tartan: a synthetic resin used for surfacing ramps, running tracks, etc.
- (uncountable, Scotland) Ellipsis of tartan-purry (“a porridge made from cabbage mixed with oatmeal”).
- [Adjective]
- Made of tartan (noun etymology 1 sense 1), or having a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles like a that of a tartan.
- (figurative, sometimes humorous) Of or relating to Scotland, its culture, or people; Scottish.
- [Verb]
- To clothe (someone) in tartan (noun etymology 1 sense 1.2).
- To apply a tartan pattern to (something).
- (figurative) To make (something) Scottish, or more Scottish; to tartanize.
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