Charlemagne decided that two mahls should be held annually, one in the month of May, the other in the autumn, and, in addition, that in each county two annual plaids should meet independently of any special mahls and plaids which it should please him to convoke.

The sprightly youths were dressed just alike, in knickerbockers and Norfolk jackets of dark brown plaid, and small college caps to matchan outfit which Bennington had always believed would attract too vivid attention in this country.

The black woman bowsshe is distinguished by her neat dress, her clean plaid head-dress, and her upright carriage.

His coat was of green velveteen corduroy and he wore knickerbockers of an eloquent plaid.

* Dave swaggered up the walk, a gay and gallant figure in his blue cutaway coat, his waistcoat of most legible plaid, fit ground for the watch chain of heavy golden links.

Now if that man had had his martial plaid wrapped around him, and had worn a Scottish cap with a feather in it and a long ribbon hanging down his back, with his claymore girded to his side, I wouldn't have been surprised; for this is Scotland, and that would have been like the pictures I have seen of Highlanders.

He was dressed in a complete suit of pink and white plaid, cut jauntily enough.

She did not pay much attention to the psychology of dress, but she knew that when she had on the pretty plaid that had come from Fort Benton, and when her heavy black hair was done up just right, she had twice the sex confidence she felt in old togs.

2. A chieftain's daughter seemed the maid; Her satin snood, her silken plaid, Her golden brooch such birth betray'd.

I'm nearly fainting from heat," I replied; and then, in charity, I lent him a heavy full-sized Inverness plaid, in which he speedily enveloped his fat carcass.

" Milly was being rapidly covered up in a thick plaid by Mrs. Maxwell.

To evade the law against the tartan dress, the Highlanders used to dye their variegated plaids and kilts into blue, green, or any single colour.

A large yellow plaid curtain hid everything from view.