• (Scotland) IPA: /pled/, /plad/
• (RP, British) IPA: /plæd/
• (GA, America) IPA: /plæd/

plaid

1. (textiles) A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern. [from 16^thc.]
   • 1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., OCLC 580270828 ↗, page 01 ↗:

     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.

2. 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. [from 16^thc.]
   • 2009, John Sadler (historian), Glencoe, Amberley 2009, p.47:

     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.

3. The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan. [from 19^thc.]

• French: tissu écossais
• Russian: плед
• Spanish: tela escocesa

• Russian: плед

• French: motif écossais
• German: Schottenstoff
• Russian: кле́тчатый
• Spanish: cuadros escoceses, cuadrillé

plaid

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

1. (archaic) Simple past tense and past participle of play
   • 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..."