plaiden

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plaiden

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Corruption of plaiding.

noun plaidens · plaidin

Scotland A coarse, woollen cloth To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaiden mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the Fountain.

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@misc{plaiden_2026,
  title = {plaiden},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/plaiden},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}