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Several plaid patterns on modern day uniforms
Plaid (pronounced /'plad/) is a Scots language word meaning blanket, usually referring to patterned woollen cloth; it is unclear if the Gaelic word Plaide came first.
- When the modern kilt is worn as a dress uniform, for example by pipe band Drum majors, a plaid (or full plaid) is a pleated cloth in the same tartan as the kilt, cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front. A similar plaid in checked cloth was formerly worn by Scottish lowlands shepherds.
- Historically the earlier form of the kilt was the belted plaid, a double width of thick woollen cloth worn pleated and fastened around the waist by a belt, with the upper half often cast over the shoulder but sometimes hanging down over the belt and gathered up at the front or brought up over the head for protection against weather. This was worn over a leine (or shirt) and formed an all-weather outfit that also served as a blanket or bedroll for sleeping outdoors. It is mostly associated with the Scottish highlands, but was also used in lowland rural areas.
- In the movie Spaceballs, Spaceball One was able to break the speed of light and go into plaid, a completely different dimension of light travel.
- Plaid is also American English for tartan. Plaid is cloth made with alternating stripes and bands of color woven into or dyed onto the fabric. This makes blocks of color that repeat vertically and horizontally in a pattern of squares and lines.
- Pop punk band MxPx (Magnified Plaid) are so named due to their original guitarists' fascination with plaid patterns.
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Index Of Related Pages
| Plaid (pattern) | Plaid Cymru | | | | | | | | | Plaid Pantry | Plaid Retina | | Plaid Tongued Devils | | | | Plaidt | Plaidy railway station | | | | | Plaigne | Plailly | Plaimbois-Vennes | | Plaimbois-du-Miroir | Plaimpied-Givaudins | Plain | | | Plain, Wisconsin | | | Plain-backed Antpitta | | Plain-backed Snowfinch | | | Plain-backed Sunbird | Plain-backed Thrush | | | Plain-bellied Emerald | | | | Plain-breasted | Plain-breasted Earthcreeper | | | Plain-breasted Ground-dove | | | | Plain-breasted Piculet | Plain-brown Woodcreeper | | | Plain-capped Ground-tyrant | | Plain-capped Starthroat | | | | Plain-coloured Seedeater | | Plain-coloured Tanager | Plain-crested Elaenia | Plain-crowned Spinetail | | | Plain-flanked Rail | | | Plain-mantled Tit-spinetail | | Plain-pouched Hornbill | | | Plain-tailed Nighthawk | Plain-tailed Warbler | Plain-tailed Warbling-finch | | Plain-tailed Wren | | | Plain-throated Antwren | Plain-throated Sunbird | Plain-winged Antshrike | | Plain-winged Antwren | Plain-winged Woodcreeper | | | PlainTalk | | | | Plain Antvireo | | | | Plain Brush-tailed Rat | | | | Plain Chachalaca | | Plain City | | Plain City, Ohio | | | Plain City, Utah | | | Plain Clothes (1988 film) | Plain Clothes Theatre Productions | | Plain Dealer Pavilion | | | Plain Dealing, Louisiana | Plain English | | Plain English Campaign | | Plain Farm House | | Plain Flowerpecker | | Plain Folk of the Old South | | Plain Friarbird | Plain Frog | Plain Gerygone | | Plain Greenbul | | | Plain Grove Township, Pennsylvania | Plain Honeyeater | | Plain Jane | Plain Jane (band) | | Plain Language Movement | | Plain Laughingthrush | | Plain Leaf-warbler | | | Plain Local School District | | | | Plain Meaning Rule | | | | Plain Mountain Finch | Plain Nightjar | Plain Old C++ Object | | Plain Old CLR Object | | | | Plain Old Data Structures | Plain Old Documentation | Plain Old Java Object | | Plain Old Semantic HTML | | | Plain Old XML | | | Plain Parakeet | Plain Pigeon | Plain Pipit | | Plain Prinia | Plain Rap | | | Plain Sailing (song) | | Plain Softtail | | Plain Squeaker | Plain Sunbird | | Plain Swift | Plain Tales from the Hills | Plain Talk | | Plain Talk: Lessons from a Business Maverick | | | | Plain Township | Plain Township, Franklin County, Ohio | Plain Township, Kosciusko County, Indiana | | Plain Township, Ohio | Plain Township, Stark County, Ohio | Plain Township, Wayne County, Ohio | | Plain Township, Wood County, Ohio | Plain Tribals Council of Assam | Plain Truth | | Plain Tyrannulet | | Plain View, North Carolina | | Plain View, Virginia | | Plain White-eye | | | Plain White T's | | | | | Plain Words | | | Plain Wren | | Plain Xenops | | Plain and Fancy | Plain and Simple | | | | | | Plain cactus snail | | | | | | Plain dress | | | | | Plain folks | Plain language | | Plain loaf | Plain maskray | | | | | Plain of Bagua | Plain of Catania | | | | Plain of Jars | | Plain of Manasseh | | | | Plain old telephone service | | | Plain people | | | | | | | | | | Plain text | | | | | | | | Plain view doctrine | | Plain weave | | | | | | | | | Plaine | | Plaine-Haute | | Plaine-de-Walsch | | Plaine-du-Nord | | Plaine Morte | | | | | | Plainedge, New York | Plainemont | | Plaines-Saint-Lange | Plaines Wilhems | Plainfaing | | Plainfeld | Plainfield | | | Plainfield, California | Plainfield, Connecticut | | | | | | Plainfield, Illinois | | | | Plainfield, Indiana | Plainfield, Iowa | Plainfield, LaPorte County, Indiana | | | Plainfield, Massachusetts | | Plainfield, Michigan | | | | Plainfield, New Hampshire | Plainfield, New Jersey | | Plainfield, New York | | | | Plainfield, Ohio | Plainfield, Ontario | | | Plainfield, Pennsylvania | | Plainfield, Vermont | | Plainfield, Wisconsin | | | | | | | Plainfield (NJT station) | | Plainfield (soil) | | | | Plainfield (town), Wisconsin | | | | | | | Plainfield Central High School | | | Plainfield Community Consolidated School District 202 | | Plainfield Correctional Facility | Plainfield Curling Club | Plainfield East High School |
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