Tartan v.

[f. TARTAN sb.¹] trans. To clothe or array in tartan; also fig. So Tartaned a., clothed in tartan, wearing tartans.

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1811. W. H. Drummond, Giants’ Causeway, 9.

	From Albin oft, when darkness veiled the pole,
	Swift o’er the surge the tartaned plunderers stole,
	And Erin’s vales with purple torrents ran,
	Beneath the claymores of the murd’rous clan.

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1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, 263. Tartaned chiefs in raptures hear The strains, the words, to them so dear.

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1875. A. Smith, Aberdeenshire, I. 656. The crested chief led on his tartaned band.

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1881. J. F. Campbell, in Ld. A. Campbell, Rec. Argyll (1885), 441. I was first tartaned, more than fifty years ago.

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