Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A corruption of plaiding.
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Examples
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I was wanting my pillows shifted a little, and the big plaiden shawl for my knees, and one of my wires that fell out of my reach, and my other clew for I'm nearly at the end of this one.
Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891
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She was dressed in a warm plaiden gown and a close mob cap, with huge keys and huswife balancing each other at either pocket-hole, and her cracked voice was very sweet as she reiterated
Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes Sarah Tytler 1870
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"I am here," said he, "at the very elbow of existence: the only things to be found in perfection in this country are stupidity and canting; prose they only know in graces and prayers, and the value of these they estimate as they do their plaiden-webs, by the ell: as for the muses, they have as much an idea of a rhinoceros as of a poet."
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