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  2. Argyll jacket - Wikipedia

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    James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife in a plain cuff Crail jacket. (photograph by Allan Warren, 1984) The Argyll Highland jacket is a shorter than regular jacket with gauntlet cuffs and pocket flaps and front cutaway for wearing with a sporran and kilt. It can be of tweed, tartan or solid colour material. The Argyll is the standard day wear jacket ...

  3. List of nicknames of British Army regiments - Wikipedia

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    The Daily Advertisers – 5th Lancers [3] The Dandies – 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards; The Dandy Ninth – 9th (Highlanders) Battalion Royal Scots [27]; The Death or Glory Boys – 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own) later 17th/21st Lancers, then Queen's Royal Lancers [1] [3] (from the regimental badge, which was a death's head (skull), with a scroll bearing the motto "or Glory")

  4. Doublet (Highland dress) - Wikipedia

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    The Argyll jacket and tweed jackets are appropriate for day wear. [1] Different tailors describe similar jackets using different names. This garment is similar to a mess jacket, with buttoned gauntlet cuffs, short or no skirts, and with or without lapels. It may have a row of silver heraldic buttons on each side.

  5. Highland dress - Wikipedia

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    King Edward VII in a tweed Argyll jacket, kilt and Glengarry bonnet (1904) Highland dress is the traditional, regional dress of the Highlands and Isles of Scotland. It is often characterised by tartan (plaid in North America). Specific designs of shirt, jacket, bodice and headwear may also be worn. On rare occasions with clan badges and other ...

  6. Independent Highland Companies - Wikipedia

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    Cairn marking the site of the Battle of Mulroy where Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie was killed leading his Independent Highland Company. After the restoration King Charles II raised several Independent Highland Companies. [8] In 1666 he allowed the Earl of Argyll to raise a company or "watch" of 60 men for one year for the purpose of guarding his ...

  7. Made in America: New Jersey brothers make clothing to ... - AOL

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    The Lang brothers created their company in 2018, to sell its namesake product. To kick off the season, anchor David Muir went inside the Heat Straps factory in Passaic, New Jersey, where brothers ...

  8. List of Scottish Gaelic surnames - Wikipedia

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    This list of Scottish Gaelic surnames shows Scottish Gaelic surnames beside their English language equivalent.. Unlike English surnames (but in the same way as Slavic, Lithuanian and Latvian surnames), all of these have male and female forms depending on the bearer, e.g. all Mac- names become Nic- if the person is female.

  9. Clan Maclachlan - Wikipedia

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    A Victorian-era romanticised depiction of a member of the clan by R. R. McIan, from The Clans of the Scottish Highlands, published in 1845. Clan Maclachlan, also known as Clan Lachlan, [2] Clann Lachainn (Argyll), [1] and Clann Lachlainn, [1] is a Highland Scottish clan that historically centred on the lands of Strathlachlan (Srath Lachainn "Valley of Lachlan") on Loch Fyne, Argyll on the west ...