Plaid vs. Flannel — What's the Difference?

Short for Plaid Cymru

Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of various fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber.

Cloth, often made of wool, with a tartan or checked pattern.

A kind of soft woven fabric, typically made of wool or cotton and slightly milled and raised

A pattern of this kind.

A small piece of towelling used for washing oneself.

A rectangular woolen scarf of a tartan pattern worn over the left shoulder by Scottish Highlanders.

Bland fluent talk indulged in to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly

(textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

Use bland fluent talk to avoid addressing a difficult subject or situation directly.

A length of such material used as a piece of clothing, formerly worn in the Scottish Highlands and other parts of northern Britain and remaining as an item of ceremonial dress worn by members of Scottish pipe bands.

A soft woven cloth of wool or a blend of wool and cotton or synthetics.

The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

Outer clothing, especially pants, made of this cloth.

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

Underclothing made of this cloth.

(archaic) play

Flannelette.

A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.

(uncountable) A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers.

Goods of any quality or material of the pattern of a plaid or tartan; a checkered cloth or pattern.

A washcloth.

Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another; as, plaid muslin.

A flannel shirt.

A cloth having a crisscross design

Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap.

Made of flannel.

(transitive) To rub with a flannel.

(transitive) To wrap in flannel.

(transitive) To flatter; to suck up to.

To waffle or prevaricate.

A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.

A cotton fabric with a thick nap on one side, resembling flannel{1}; it is used, e. g. for underwear or sheets; also called flanellette.

Garments made of flannel, especially underwear.

A washcloth.

Humbug; nonsensical or evasive talk.

Insincere flattery or praise.

A soft light woolen fabric; used for clothing

Bath linen consisting of a piece of cloth used to wash the face and body

(usually in the plural) trousers