Tartanize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make (something) stereotypically Scottish; to tartan. transitive
"Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself."
Example
More examples"Particularly irksome for someone like Kerr, the plot had its basis in events that had occurred on Prince Edward Island – not Cape Breton Island – but the filmmakers had cavalierly transported the story to Nova Scotia at just the time when the province was in the midst of tartanizing itself."
Etymology
From tartan + -ize.
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