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Plaid vs Plaided - What's the difference?

plaid | plaided |

As adjectives the difference between plaid and plaided

is that plaid is having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another while plaided is of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.

As a noun plaid

is a type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.

As a verb plaid

is past tense of play.

plaid

English

(wikipedia plaid)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) plaid, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a past participle form of (ply). Scottish Gaelic is probably a borrowing from Scots.

Noun

(en noun)
  • A type of twilled woollen cloth, often with a tartan or chequered pattern.
  • *
  • *: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.
  • 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.
  • *2009 , , 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.
  • The typical chequered pattern of a plaid; tartan.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scottish tartan; checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to one another.

    • Etymology 2

    Alternative forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (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..."
    ----

    plaided

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.
  • * Wordsworth
    • In plaided vest.
  • Wearing a plaid.
  • * 1854 , William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn
    • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song,
    No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain,
    No plumed and plaided clans those hills among,
    Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?