- a woollen cloth woven in one of several patterns of coloured checks and intersecting lines, especially of a design associated with a particular Scottish clan格子呢（尤指苏格兰格子呢）。
- used allusively in reference to Scotland or the Scots苏格兰的; 苏格兰人的：
the financing proposals for the Scottish parliament amounted to a tartan tax.
对苏格兰议会来说, 财政提议就等于是苏格兰税收。
词源
late 15th cent. (originally Scots)： perhaps from Old French tertaine, denoting a kind of cloth; compare with tartarin, a rich fabric formerly imported from the east through Tartary.