Plaiden

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A coarse, woollen cloth Scotland

    "To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain."

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"To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain."

Etymology

Corruption of plaiding.

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