a woollen cloth woven in one of several patterns of coloured checks and intersecting lines, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan 格子呢(尤指苏格兰格子呢)
adjective
used allusively in reference to Scotland or the Scots 苏格兰的;苏格兰人的 the financing proposals for the Scottish parliament amounted to a tartan tax. 对苏格兰议会来说,财政提议就等于是苏格兰税收。
语源
late 15th cent. (originally Scots): perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare with tartarin, a rich fabric formerly imported from the east through Tartary
tartan2 noun
(historical)a lateen-rigged, single-masted ship used in the Mediterranean (史)(航行在地中海上的)单桅小帆船
语源
early 17th cent.: from French tartane, from Italian tartana, perhaps from Arabic ṭarīda