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Sentence Examples Rose had used babysitting money to buy a new pair of pedal pushers and a plaid cropped top. Visions of mukluks and plaid flannel flood the mind when asked to describe Canuck chic. But there should be more to it than the skirl of the bagpipe and the swirl of the plaid. Suddenly it hits me that I'm clad in a white undershirt and plaid pajama bottoms. She wore a soft yellow and olive green plaid gown with a sweetheart neckline and sleeves that reached just slightly past her elbows. Other standout looks include the fluted plaid skirt and the accompanying sleeveless asymmetrical top. He started in and pretty soon had all the union suits and socks and plaid shirts unwrapped in front of him. I stripped down to my blue and green plaid boxers and walked over to my big boom box. She smoothed her navy blue plaid uniform skirt and hugged her jacket around herself tightly. Where was the nasal nerdy voice, the plaid suit, the snooty know-it-all haughtiness? It consisted of a plaid, pleated skirt, a white blouse, a sweater vest, and a blazer, as well as a tie, and knee highs. With her plaid shirt and brusque manners, she is so caught up in her own family traumas she can't branch out for herself. She put on a pink shirt, white sandals, pink plaid pants, and a matching pink plaid bucket hat. The dark navy plaid skirt came down a little below mid-thigh and the short sleeve shirt buttoned down the front. Not for nothing is Alastair clad in the finest cloth, his plaid trimmed in gold, his stockings tied with silk garters. Hels was a short, stocky man in a plaid jumper, stagged trousers and boots. The police dog and its handler only found the plaid shirt that is one of the exhibits. He wears a grey t-shirt underneath a plaid flannel shirt and short grey cape, jeans, runners, and a plain black mask. He was wearing khaki cargo pants and a plaid, collared, short sleeve shirt. Two people brought him, carrying him and helping him along, wrapped in a thick plaid blanket that we took off. Show More Sentences Perhaps we should be forgiving when a friend wears a striped shirt with plaid pants. A larger frame woman would be more flattered by muted plaid, and no one really looks terrific in a completely outsized plaid. And I was passed by a French Canadian couple in matching his and hers plaid shirts. Men's classic suiting is coming out in patterns such as houndstooth, herringbone, glen plaid, tartan, pinstripes and Donegal tweed. Wrapped in an expansive plaid jacket, lidded with page-boy haircut, she looks like a celebrity teapot. Walking to the bed I grabbed a pair of blue plaid pajama bottoms, slipped them on then pulled a white t-shirt over my head. This particular apartment had been decorated an ugly pea-green with hardwood floors and red plaid furniture. Papa sports endless plaid shirts and Mother was a fashion plate in spreading skirts and petticoats. On the way back I passed an old man riding a motorcycle, wearing a blue plaid lungi, dingy white shirt, and a tall red fez with a black tassel. It is covered in original, masculine fabrics such as pinstripe, plaid and herringbone, all in various shades of grey. Highlanders originally wore a stretch of plaid, often vegetable dyed, that was draped and pleated to form a skirt with pockets. She seemed to have the most fun with tweed, gaily mixing textures such as a houndstooth alongside a Prince of Wales plaid. She didn't like bright colors, anything with a pattern other than glen plaid, or too many embellishments. In fact, because the plaid picks up colors from each of the fabrics, it's the element that draws the others together. Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid. She stared down at the thick woolen cloth covering her but was still unable to discern the origin of the plaid. It was a time when the popular press rallied around any Seattle band wearing plaid and a guitar. Dressed in denim, plaid, and a rigid white cowboy hat, he looks far more like a farmer than his father. The familiar wool plaid jackets kept these men warm in early morning before the rays of the sun penetrated the canopy to reach the forest floor. While camping in the cold outdoors, the plaid could double as a sleeping bag. Show More Sentences The plaid is a length of tartan cloth draped over the shoulder and does not properly refer to the pattern, which is the tartan. Not only the plaid, but even the kilt and over-the-shoulder drape are of military origin. Speaking of the devil, Matthew walked into the kitchen with his plaid boxers and black tee. I am rather fond of the indigent look, myself, and am the proud owner of a modest collection of plaid flannel shirts. Burberry has a flip-flop with its trademark plaid encased in a clear plastic footbed. She had abandoned all of her clothing and was now standing in only a crop top and a pair of plaid boxers. She's wearing a green plaid top, rather like the top half of a business suit, that manages to be both demure and revealing. His blue plaid shirt was rolled up to his elbows at the sleeves and his feet were bare as well. When was the last time you bought a pair of yellow-and-brown plaid double-knit golf pants? The uniform was a white shirt and a grey plaid vest, with a grey above-the-knee plaid skirt, white knee socks and dressy shoes. He shops for disco clothes and plaid pants, gets an Afro wig and starts talking jive. This cartoon used two of Bill Sanders' favorite characters, John Q. Public and a fast-talking salesman in a plaid sports coat. The color scheme extends to the attached sunroom with its red rattan settee and yellow armchairs, which have kick pleats in plaid. He was now wearing a wife-beater, a plaid button-up shirt and still a pair of jeans. Addison opens the door to see a tall red-headed girl with a blue plaid dress on and her hair up. Jaime straightened out her plaid red skirt, and put on her fishnet stockings with her knee high laced boots. When Jana emerged from the stall, she was tucking her white shirt into the regulation plaid skirt and was muttering harshly under her breath. Like a tailor, he keeps big needles pinned behind the lapel of his coat, a plaid jacket too large for him. In a tan velour hooded zip sweatshirt, blue cords and a plaid rust, blue and cream button down, Rob tells me that I look too pale in browns. She smoothed her plaid skirt, adjusting any wrinkles or valleys that had been created. Show More Sentences Colorful frilly skirts or plaid pants generally gave way to wild sandals or roller skates. A green rocking chair here, a plaid sofa, an orange area rug, Japanese watercolors on the wall, it was really rather disorienting. They all had hooded sweatshirts, plaid shirts or long-sleeved tee shirts with jeans. His thick eyeglasses were slightly askew, but otherwise he was impeccable, dressed as always in brightly colored slacks and a plaid jacket. On it was a photograph of an older man dressed in a loud red plaid suit, gesturing with his thumb up. Seven white shirts and five skirts, three plaid and two gray, hung from hangers. Lesley was wearing a faded plaid lumberjack shirt and equipped with an all-new hat. With a cleanly shaven face, he kept himself quite neat, plaid lumberjack shirt tucked away into fading khaki pants. Our uniforms are plaid skirts, saddle shoes, tights when it's cold, a polo white T-shirt, or long sleeved button up white, blue, or pink shirt. A sleeper chair is tufted and skirted in the same plaid taffeta used behind the bed. He's wearing a madras hat, plaid women's slacks that go down only as far as his shins, and a plaid jacket with two drooping flowers in his lapel. She was neatly dressed in a blue and white plaid sun dress, and wore high-heeled sandals on her feet. He reached up and adjusted his plaid tam, which offset perfectly his red scarf and silk shirt. I put on a red tank top with a black fishnet shirt over it and red plaid bondage pants. Her version of the plaid, a tartan also in silk, is hung over the shoulder and pinned in place with a brooch. Five round tables covered with Scotch plaid cloths occupy most of the space. I was quite taken with her coats, with the plaid balmacaan being particularly lovely. His plaid shirt and jeans make a good match for her gingham dress, while his masculine work boots match well with her cheap thong sandals. The couch was dark green suede and definitely cozier than the plaid throw covering the couch that would be acting as a bed in his new place. I sat up in bed in my blue plaid bathrobe, propped against pillows, and sipped the tea and read Tom Swift. Show More Sentences Well, the blankets are a medium blue, shot with lighter and darker shades that create a plaid tartan. I took a quick shower and looked into my closet, choosing a pair of Madras plaid Bermuda shorts and Abercrombie polo. More from Anthropologie, we have this plaid trench, which is understated and stylish and this adorable shift dress. She hangs an Anna Sui plaid skirt and XOXO classic black shift dress in her closet. In one case I got as far as the building's entryway, which was being used to store bags of shirred fabric in pink-and-purple plaid. Tall and slim, he has on a tan windbreaker over a plaid shirt with brown slacks, brown moccasins. Slipping on a red plaid robe over her nightgown, Lydie slowly trudged to the front door. There's no doubt about it, plaid, like any other busy pattern, can put on the illusion of girth. He put the robe over his plaid shirt and jeans, wrapped the turban up, and pulled the fluttering silk scarf over his brown beard. If you're looking for trendy patterns, go for paisley, floral, plaid, checks, and herringbone. Harry kept his plaid shirt on and danced in the comforts of his own skybox. Nicole put her hand in her plaid skirt and fished out a set of keys. There are young rock chicks and rock-boys and arty-looking men and women, in plaid, denim, ripped and stretched cardigans. The man was wide across the shoulders, the madras plaid making him look like a senior-division body builder, knotty arms twisting from his sleeves. The boys, draped in baggy denim and plaid, stand beneath them and stare. Andrina, happed in a plaid dressing-gown, shuffled back into the room. Contrary to popular belief, Burberry has not discontinued its famous plaid baseball cap because of its association with football hooligans and lager louts. With 4 inches of plaid boxer shorts visible above sagging jeans, Tony Mihalo fit almost perfectly into the teen crowd idling away the night in a Naperville bowling alley. For her first day of school, she was wearing a short, plaid skirt, fishnet stockings, a black tank top under a see-through black shirt, and clunky black shoes. That's a nod to the raincoat maker that transformed itself from tired to trendy by plastering its trademark plaid on everything from miniskirts to bikinis. Show More Sentences Pair the plaid skirt with knee high socks, boots and a sequinned vest. At least he tells us he does in various campaign ads and in carefully-staged photo-ops that picture him in khaki and plaid walking around our parks. Courtney wore cutoff denim shorts with a plaid blouse tied at the midriff, showing off her ample cleavage. Pipers wore black shoes, tartan hose, spats, kilt, jacket, full wrap around plaid and glengarry, with hat badge and shoulder brooch, and skeine dhu, permissible. I was instantly smitten with Brad the lumber jack god with blonde hair, bronzed muscular arms shown off by the ripped off sleeves of his plaid lumberjack shirt. Lay boughs and cones in a trug, and tie a plaid ribbon on the handle. Today, he still favors the plaid flannel shirts of a woodsman. But he was a country bumpkin at heart, already dressed for the weekend in blue overalls, a red plaid shirt, and an old fashioned railroad engineer's striped hat. I took an undershirt and a red and blue plaid one, leaving it unbuttoned. What of the sporran, the little leather pouch worn with the plaid? Eighteen years ago the world became widely aware of the plaid yellow suit, the white minidress, and an overload of argyle. She ditches her plaid knee-highs for Audrey Hepburn-style shift dresses, fur stoles, red lipstick and a bouffant. Wearing a plaid shirt, the stocky singer looked like a bricklayer playing an open mic at a bar. Her dour father is clad in plaid shorts and black dress socks pulled up snugly along the calf. She wore a plaid flannel shirt that went down her hips, and no pants. He slept on bracken, the only concession to comfort a down quilt and a patch of woollen red plaid, often seen wrapped around him as he went about his business. She wore her light brown hair up in two messy Chinese-style knots on top of her head and had secured them with shoelaces, one neon orange and one plaid. Although not highly recommended, you can always wear a plaid pattern shirt with a checkered tie, so long as the patterns aren't identical in size. I also have to praise Baker's fully-realized direction and his keen sense of detail from the kind of bag Evelyn carries to the rattiness of Adam's totem-esque plaid jacket. He is interrupted by a butch, bearded man clad in plaid who introduces himself as his childhood friend Ignacio, now an aspiring actor known by the stage name Angel. Show More Sentences The Gaels had their own style of dress, which became the modern belted plaid and kilt in Scotland. Age is definitely making me narkier. The only difference between me and my moany Auntie Maisie is a plaid shopping trolley and a tracheotomy. This is where grassroots trends like fedoras, graffiti prints, plaid shirts, nerd glasses, messenger bags, and granny boots originated. His companion was described as a black man, about 6-foot-2 and wearing a dreadlock wig, khaki pants and a red-and-tan plaid flannel shirt. Also, invest in some plaid or a cardigan beforehand, because the bouncers tend to select the more hipsterly attired. Add some Highland hideaway chic to your home with a plaid or tartan armchair. The Corduroy Shirt in bright pumpkin pinwale, with soft plaid facing in the collar and cuffs, is perfect for fall. There are 20 Double-Time brushes available in all, seven checkerboards, four plaid stripers, six multi-liner and three multi-rounds. As the car salesman approached, wearing a plaid suit and slicked-back hair, he seemed to embody sleaze. She wore a plaid green mackinaw coat and charcoal gray slacks of the same heavy wool.He smiled weakly when he saw the heavy green mackinaw coat. The sun room walls were painted yellow and she bought a new plaid chair to team with her saxe blue sofa. In North America the term plaid is commonly used to describe tartan. In battle, the plaid was customarily shrugged off before the charge bit home, and the warrior came into contact with only his long, saffron shirt to preserve modesty. Having, moreover, put on her clean toy, rokelay, and scarlet plaid. More recently, you ought to know that plaid shirts were donned by women's libbers in the 1960's, proving you don't need to be a man to wear a button-down. But as it turns out, lang is well on her way to becoming alternative pop's first bona fide chanteuse, without a plaid skirt or toy six-gun in sight. The City Living sofa in a rich plaid has a sloping, semiattached pillow back with rolled arms and turned front legs and more contemporary back legs. It's OK for her to shove on a pair of your comfy PJs when she chooses but she's offended that you'd like to see her wearing a big pair of unsexy plaid pyjamas in bed. The slenderizing fit will feature coated styles and, for the first time, incorporate laser-printing technology to create plaid and camouflage-printed denim. Examples from Classical Literature Out flashed the lantern from beneath his plaid and he held it up to the window. The body was stripped of everything of value, and the clansman wound it in the plaid and buried it on the battlefield. Her plaid dress of mixed wool was always wrinkled by rain, and despite the let-out tucks was ever too short. The plaid finished his outburst with the uncontradicted statement that the English were mad. Whereupon the obliging young man referred to a watch pocket in his plaid vest, and nodded with a great deal of intelligence. He looked well in Windbreaker coat, cap, leather puttees, and his knickers were genuine Scotch plaid. Until quite recently it was believed that the plaid, philibeg and bonnet formed the ancient garb. The philibeg or kilt, as distinct from the plaid, in all probability, is comparatively modern. She held the piggin with one arm encircled about it, and with the other hand she clutched the plaid shawl around her throat. She had on a plaid shawl of purple, green, and red checkers, crossed on her bosom. Nor less emphatic is his railing at the plaid and blaspheming at the claymore. It is the rich materials of snood, plaid, and brooch that betray her birth. The tie in question was an attempt to hybridise the respective colour-schemes of a tartan plaid and a Neapolitan ice. You may consider yourself 'geyan fine,' all covered over with Scotch plaid, but I wouldn't be so 'kenspeckle' for worlds! Polly found her giving a plaid ribbon and a corsage nosegay to Sary. He lifted again the dead woman, and she happed the plaid about her. She snipped her threads and drew the plaid skirt from under the needle. The soldiers then saw him stretch his limbs, little by little, and under the pretense of much heat throw off the Scotch plaid which covered him. Macbeth had something twisted round him, that went over one shoulder and under the other arm, and was meant, I believe, for a Scotch plaid. It was the plaid belonging to stella Hardy, who had died in her teens. Show More Sentences A soldier, roused by the noise, unrolled his plaid, and looked up to see what was going forward. He put it under his plaid, and prepared to give the signal whistle. In gorgeous tweeds and a shepherd's plaid cap he looked the part. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of plaid? Words that rhyme with plaid What is the plural of plaid? What is the adjective for plaid? What is the noun for plaid? Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words plaice plaguy plaguing plaguey plagues plague-ridden plaided plaids plain Plain plainchant plainclothes 5-letter Words Starting With p pl pla plai