Plaid
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A short encyclopedia entry defining the plaid as the woollen outer garment of Scottish Highlanders. It gives the proposed Gaelic and Latin etymology, describes how the plaid was worn and how the lower portion became the kilt (philibeg), and notes that the word came to mean any checked or tartan cloth, including shepherd's plaid.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1911
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
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