But fashion, as usual, proved too strong for authority, and while plaids continued to be worn, women of all ranks occasionally employed them as a sort of muffler or veil.
In England, where no plaids were worn, the ladies used vizard masks for the same purpose, and the gallants drew the skirts of their cloaks over the right shoulder, so as to cover part of the face.
We sat for a little with our plaids about us, revelling in the solace of the hearty fire that sent wafts of odorous reek round the dwelling; and to our dry rations the woman added whey, that we drank from birch cogies.
Others made still a moving picture upon the narrow plain, forming various changeful groups, their feathers and loose plaids waving in the morning breeze, and their arms glittering in the rising sun.
Their light was assisted by the red glare of a large charcoal fire, round which were seated five or six armed Highlanders, while others were indistinctly seen couched on their plaids in the more remote recesses of the cavern.
Miss Willing and the girls had a good laugh about the use of large plaids and broad stripes for stout people.
Plaids or squares certainly tend to emphasize stoutness, as do bold designs or conspicuous color combinations.
I like this society, and willingly give myself to be excited by the sight of handsome young men with plaids and claymores, and all the alertness and spirit of Highlanders in their native garb.
We threw down our plaids and Lochiel tossed his shoes aside; we gave the war-cry in a great shout.
On with your coats and plaids and be off as fast as you can--over the ridge yonder.
Of course they were unarmed, for they travelled in the capacity of peaceful drovers, with plaids on their shoulders, and the usual staves in their hands.
Sometimes I was broad awake and understood what passed; sometimes I only heard voices, or men snoring, like the voice of a silly river; and the plaids upon the wall dwindled down and swelled out again, like firelight shadows on the roof.
And shriek, and shout, and battle cry, And plaids and bonnets waving high, And broadswords flashing to the sky, Are maddening in the rear.
A company of herdsmen in plaids driving cattle was magnified by imagination into a host of Celtic warriors.
Another day a score of plaids dangled in a row on the gallows of Crieff or Stirling.
Most of the bedding having got thoroughly soaked in passing through the surf, many of us slept in our plaids on the bare ground, which some of the youngsters rather preferred, as a hardy soldier-like sort of thing.
We established ourselves in the empty echoing rooms, lighting fires in the grates, collecting the scattered chairs and tables, and spreading ourplaids on the cartel bedsteads.
Comfortless as our rest had been, it was with the greatest reluctance we crept out of our plaidsand blankets into the bitterly cold foggy air and drizzling rain, to stumble drowsily along our night-march.
The Dominie set himself to arrange them, while Nell and Marjorie lay covered up together in our plaids upon the stone bench which ran about the place, and which appeared to have been hewn out at some past time by the rude art of man.
It was, therefore, small wonder that I listened long, lying there among the plaidsupon the floor.
I lay down upon the plaids and composed me to sleep.
Nevertheless, two hours before daylight shepherds and master started for the hill, taking first the precaution to sew their plaids round them, and to tie on their bonnets.
The previous Sunday was so warm that lassies returning from Yarrow Kirk in the evening took off shoes and stockings and walked barefoot; the young men cast plaids and coats.
Two men in plaids were descending the hill behind the doctor's cottage, taking three feet at a stride, and carrying long staffs in their hands.
But since thou art here, Jacob Jopson will betray no man's bluid; and the plaids were gay canny, and did not so much mischief when they were here yesterday.
Oh, he was hanged at Stirling after the rebels raised the siege, with his lieutenant, and four plaids besides; he having the advantage of a gallows more lofty than his friends.
We had met in the hall as we had planned, and, wrapped in our plaids because the early morning air was cold, we tramped away together.
We always carriedplaids enough to keep us warm and dry.
These plaids are more used as skirts than as entire dresses; in fact, the newest departure in coats and skirts is to have the skirt of plaid and the coat of a plain cloth which suits it in colour.
If the French craze for plaids and tartans be followed in England, it will be as well to remind everyone that there are certain people to whom they are quite forbidden.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaids" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
