Plaid () may refer to:

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* A synonym for

tartan Tartan or plaid ( ) is a patterned cloth consisting of crossing horizontal and vertical bands in multiple colours, forming repeating symmetrical patterns known as ''setts''. Originating in woven wool, tartan is most strongly associated wi ...

cloth, primarily in North American English *

Full plaid A full plaid, or just a plaid (plæd) , is a long piece of tartan fabric, most often worn as part of a Highland dress. It usually matches the tartan of the kilt. A modern full plaid is pleated the whole way, with half of its length sewn shut (so ...

, 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 In Highland dress, the modern fly plaid originated with the traditional Great Plaid () worn in the Scottish Highlands. The Great Plaid was a large piece of cloth, which by the 16th century measured up to in length, half of which was pleated an ...

, a smaller tartan-cloth mantle, worn pinned to the left shoulder *

Belted plaid The belted plaid is a large blanket-like piece of fabric which is wrapped around the body with the material pleated or, more accurately, loosely gathered and secured at the waist by means of a belt. Typically, a portion of the belted plaid hangs d ...

or "great kilt", an earlier form of the kilt, it was a large plaid (blanket) pleated by hand and belted around the waist **

Arisaid An arisaid ( – especially of black, blue, and red stripes on white. White-based tartans influenced later Tartan#Hunting, mourning, dress, and dance, dance and sometimes dress tartans, as well as household-item tartans in a style called "barre ...

, 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) A maud (also Scottish Lowlands, Lowland plaid or Scottish Borders, Low Country plaid) is a woollen blanket or plaid woven in a pattern of small black and white checks known as Border tartan, Shepherd's check, Shepherd's plaid or Galashiels grey. I ...

or Lowland plaid, a cloth mantle made in a small black-and-white chequered pattern * A plaid (tartan) shirt, typically of

flannel Flannel is a soft woven fabric, of varying fineness. Flannel was originally made from carded wool or worsted yarn, but is now often made from either wool, cotton, or synthetic fiber. Flannel is commonly used to make tartan clothing, blankets, ...

and worn during the winter * A plaid (tartan) jacket, often made of

Mackinaw cloth Mackinaw cloth is a heavy and dense water-repellent woolen cloth, similar to Melton cloth but using a tartan pattern, often " buffalo plaid". It was used to make a short coat of the same name, sometimes with a doubled shoulder. These jackets hav ...

* Windowpane plaid, a way of crossing warp and weft to create a pattern

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* ''Plaid'' (album), a 1992 album by guitarist Blues Saraceno *

Plaid (band) Plaid () are an English electronic music duo composed of Andy Turner and Ed Handley. They were founding members of The Black Dog and used many other names, such as Atypic (Andy Turner) and Balil (Ed Handley), before settling on Plaid. They h ...

, a British electronic music duo, taking their name from the Welsh word for party *

Plaid Cymru Plaid Cymru ( ; , ; officially Plaid Cymru – the Party of Wales, and often referred to simply as Plaid) is a centre-left, Welsh nationalist list of political parties in Wales, political party in Wales, committed to Welsh independence from th ...

, a political party in Wales * Plaid Inc., a financial technology company specializing in bank login verification *

Plaid Loch Plaid Loch (NS 485186) was a freshwater loch in East Ayrshire, now a remnant due to drainage, near Sinclairston and 2 miles (3 km) south-east of Drongan, lying in a glacial kettle hole,.Love, Page 197 The loch Plaid Loch is one of four sma ...

, freshwater lake in East Ayrshire, Scotland, UK *

Plaid speed ''Spaceballs'' is a 1987 American space opera parody film co-written, produced and directed by Mel Brooks. It primarily parodies the original ''Star Wars'' trilogy, but also other popular franchises such as ''Star Trek'', '' Alien'', ''The Wiz ...

, a faster-than-light speed from the movie ''Spaceballs'' *Plaid, branding for the high-performance version of the

Tesla Model S The Tesla Model S is a battery-electric, four-door full-size car produced by the American automaker Tesla since 2012. The automaker's second vehicle and longest-produced model, the Model S has both received mixed reviews from critics and a ...

, and the

Tesla Model X The Tesla Model X is a battery electric mid-size luxury crossover SUV built by Tesla, Inc. since 2015. Developed from the full-sized sedan platform of the Tesla Model S, the vehicle notably uses falcon wing doors for rear passenger access. ...

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