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2. Madras (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. The fabric takes its name from the former name of the city of Chennai in south India .

3. Check (pattern) - Wikipedia

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   Check (also checker, Brit: chequer, or dicing) is a pattern of modified stripes consisting of crossed horizontal and vertical lines which form squares.The pattern typically contains two colours where a single checker (that is a single square within the check pattern) is surrounded on all four sides by a checker of a different colour.

4. Tattersall (cloth) - Wikipedia

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   Blue and black checked tattersall cotton cloth. Tattersall is a style of tartan pattern woven into cloth.The pattern is composed of regularly-spaced thin, even vertical warp stripes, repeated horizontally in the weft, thereby forming squares.

5. Madras (costume) - Wikipedia

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   A traditional four-piece costume. The Wob Dwyiet (or Wobe Dwiette), a grand robe worn by the earlier French settlers. The madras is the traditional pattern of the women and girls of Dominica and St. Lucia, and its name is derived from the madras cloth, a fabric used in the costume.

6. Tartan - Wikipedia

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   It shows a man's belted plaid, and a woman's plaid (arisaid, earasaid) worn as a shawl or cloak over a dress, and also depicts diced short hose and a blue bonnet. [ 194 ] [ 222 ] [ ab ] Clans had for a long time independently raised militias , and starting in 1603, the British government itself mustered irregular militia units in the Highlands ...

7. Plaid - Wikipedia

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   Belted plaid or "great kilt", an earlier form of the kilt, it was a large plaid (blanket) pleated by hand and belted around the waist Arisaid, ladieswear equivalent of the belted plaid, worn until the 18th century as a large shawl or wrapped into a dress; in later times, shrank to a smaller plaid worn as a shoulder or head shawl