Plaid

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"Plaid" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Tom was wearing an ugly plaid jacket and a polka-dot tie.

Do you sell any trousers lined with plaid flannel?

Tom is wearing a plaid jacket today.

Mary likes to wear strips and plaid.

Tom was wearing a plaid shirt.

Tom likes to wear plaid.

Tom is wearing a plaid shirt.

Tom wasn't wearing a plaid shirt.

When they wear plaid, fat people often look fatter.

Mary and I are sitting on the sofa, wrapped in plaid blankets, and watching TV.

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It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.

In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt (‘leine chrochach’) to preserve modesty.

1774, Dr Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Works of the English Poets, J. Nichols, Volume II, Page 134, "...then plaid on the organ, and sung..."

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