A synonym for tartan cloth, primarily in North American English
Full plaid, a cloth blanket or mantle, made with a tartan or checked pattern, wrapped around the waist, cast over the shoulder and fastened at the front
Fly plaid, a smaller tartan-cloth mantle, worn pinned to the left shoulder
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
Maud (plaid) or Lowland plaid, a cloth mantle made in a small black-and-white chequered pattern
A plaid (tartan) shirt, typically of flannel and worn during the winter
