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Tarten vs. Tartan — What's the Difference?

Tarten vs. Tartan — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Tarten and Tartan

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Tarten

(transitive) To make tart or bitter

Tartan

Tartan (Scottish Gaelic: breacan [ˈpɾʲɛxkən]) (Irish: breacán) is a patterned cloth consisting of criss-crossed, horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours. Tartans originated in woven wool, but now they are made in many other materials.

Tarten

(intransitive) To become tart or bitter

Tartan

Any of numerous textile patterns consisting of stripes of varying widths and colors crossed at right angles against a solid background, each forming a distinctive design worn by the members of a Scottish clan.

Tartan

A twilled wool fabric or garment having such a pattern.
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Tartan

A plaid fabric.

Tartan

A small, single-masted Mediterranean ship with a large lateen sail.

Tartan

A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans and some Scottish families and institutions having their own distinctive patterns.

Tartan

The pattern associated with such material.

Tartan

An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.

Tartan

Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.

Tartan

A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.

Tartan

(historical) A kind of long covered carriage.

Tartan

Having a pattern like a tartan.

Tartan

(humorous) Scottish.

Tartan

(transitive) To clothe in tartan.

Tartan

Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
MacCullummore's heart will be as cold as death can make it, when it does not warm to the tartan.
The sight of the tartan inflamed the populace of London with hatred.

Tartan

A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Tartan

A cloth having a crisscross design

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