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"Plaid" (rhymes with bad and sad), is a Scottish word referring to a pattern of weaving where the colours of the threads in one direction follow a particular pattern which is reproduced by the threads going in the opposite direction. The result is intersecting lines and squares of different colours. A piece of fabric with this pattern is sometimes called "a plaid" and could be a scarf or shawl.

Where the particular pattern of colours is particularly associated with a group (a clan, military unit, country, club, etc.), it is called a tartan.

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