Highlanders vs Tartan - What's the difference?
highlanders | tartan |
A kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with Scottish Highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns.
The pattern associated with such material.
An individual or a group wearing tartan; a Highlander or Scotsman in general.
Trade name of a synthetic resin, used for surfacing tracks etc.
Having a pattern like a tartan.
* 1929 , , (A House Is Built) , Chapter IX, Section iii
*:In the second row of the cavalcade were Francie, Fanny's god-daughter, now thirteen years old and already elegant in long frilled pantalettes, tartan skirts, and a leghorn hat with streamers, …
(humorous) Scottish.
A type of one-masted vessel used in the Mediterranean.
* 1877 , (Jules Verne), Ellen E. Frewer (translator), , Part 2, Chapter X: Market Prices in Gallia,
* 1896 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), , Chapter IV: The Peace of Amiens,
As nouns the difference between highlanders and tartan
is that highlanders is (highlander) while tartan is a kind of woven woollen cloth with a distinctive pattern of coloured stripes intersecting at right angles, associated with scottish highlanders, different clans having their own distinctive patterns or tartan can be a type of one-masted vessel used in the mediterranean.As a adjective tartan is
having a pattern like a tartan.As a verb tartan is
to clothe in tartan.tartan
English
Etymology 1
Blend of (etyl) . (wikipedia tartan)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)Etymology 2
, from (etyl) (m), of uncertain origin.Alternative forms
* tartane * tartanaNoun
(en noun)- Hakkabut hereupon descended into the hold of the tartan , and soon returned, carrying ten packets of tobacco, each weighing one kilogramme, and securely fastened by strips of paper, labelled with the French Government stamp.
- When we were watching Massena, off Genoa, we got a matter of seventy schooners, brigs, and tartans , with wine, food, and powder.