What's the difference between tartan and trews?

Tartan


Definition:

  • (n.) Woolen cloth, checkered or crossbarred with narrow bands of various colors, much worn in the Highlands of Scotland; hence, any pattern of tartan; also, other material of a similar pattern.
  • (n.) A small coasting vessel, used in the Mediterranean, having one mast carrying large leteen sail, and a bowsprit with staysail or jib.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The three rooms are plush and contemporary with tartan trim.
  • (2) If the scenes in Faro are anything to go by he has the Tartan Army’s backing to do precisely that.
  • (3) Its annual conferences were a mishmash of Highlands conservative women in tartan skirts, angry socialists from the central belt and, unique to the party, an embarrassing array of men in kilts armed with broadswords and invoking the ghosts of William Wallace and Robert the Bruce.
  • (4) The fact is, you can’t quite see the tartan rainbow when you’re living right under it.
  • (5) Lance Payton, a freelance hairdresser in his late 40s from Bath, who joined the Tories seven years ago, is one exception in his green-and-pink tartan suit.
  • (6) So, should you incur a public-spirited 50,000-volt warning shot – perhaps for brandishing your pension book in an aggressive manner or because a young PC has mistaken your tartan shopping trolley for a piece of field artillery – don't accidentally shout "Oh fuck!"
  • (7) Tom Young, 63, a retired British Gas worker wearing a red tartan scarf, said Berwick was "the forgotten area of Northumberland".
  • (8) As is regularly observed by the tartan twitterati, Scotland has twice as many pandas as Conservative MPs, so Tories popping north to advise the natives on their voting duty are liable to prove counter-productive.
  • (9) The models' hair was styled into outsize saucers, their lashes and brows powdered white; they wore Black Watch tartan and scowled as they stomped.
  • (10) Next in line was the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, that’s IHMC, in Pensacola, and in third place was Tartan Rescue from Carnegie Mellon University National Robotics Engineering Center.
  • (11) "What she seems to be is a bridge between 1950s nationalism, which might be regarded as old-fashioned tweed and tartan SNP, and the modern social democratic SNP that is being forged in Holyrood."
  • (12) Oscar Marsh, aged 10, already has plans for the panda toy he has just been bought from the gift shop at Edinburgh zoo, which is filled with row after row of pandas in tartan skirts, panda toffees, panda-shaped shortbread tins, panda hats and earmuffs.
  • (13) But by dint of iron discipline and a little luck, we made it to the ground on time and found the Tartan Army in good heart; as ever, it was full of booze, hope and humour.
  • (14) The Tartan Army, as its fans are collectively known, is well-known for its open and passionate rivalry with the ancient and traditional foe, England, although one recent opinion suggested more Scots are either neutral or back England than don't.
  • (15) Then over the cardigan you wear a gold leather bodice and then a giant tartan coat.
  • (16) That tartan rug is a heather-hued heath before my hearth (alliteration too!).
  • (17) Jogging on forest grounds and cinder paths is less strenuous compared to asphalt tracks or tartan paths.
  • (18) "We want a striker" was the next chant to emanate from the Tartan Army; Mackie was operating in that lone role after the withdrawl of Miller.
  • (19) Tartan, for instance, for all its treasured place in the royal family's dressing-up box, appears to be as innocuously iconic to nationalists, in the approach to the referendum, as are tributes to William Wallace and celebrations of Bannockburn, in which around 11,000 English soldiers died.
  • (20) 11.35am: My colleague Kevin McCarra also believes England fans have turned over a new leaf: I have been watching the amiable England fans in Port Elizabeth and, troublingly for a a jock like me, I realised they have taken over the Tartan Army's determinedly good-natured approach now that Scotland no longer bother with major tournaments.

Trews


Definition:

  • (n. pl.) Trowsers; especially, those of the Scotch Highlanders.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) David Cameron mocks Ed Miliband over Russell Brand interview Read more But Brand is expected to offer his backing for Labour, possibly at the end of a series of films on the general election, looking at all the parties on his YouTube politics show, The Trews.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Trews, Brand’s True News YouTube broadcasts.
  • (3) For the past year Brand has been airing his views on the Trews (or the True News), a daily YouTube broadcast.
  • (4) In the ballroom, couples at a lunchtime tea dance swirl around an interior decked with miniature saltires – and on 30 November, St Andrew's Day will be celebrated with the help of the association's pipe band, a "Scottish disco", and one Gerry Trew, "with his tribute to Rod Stewart".
  • (5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘I haven’t got time to hang out with Russell Brand’, says Cameron Brand has 9.5 million followers on Twitter and The Trews has 100,000 viewers.
  • (6) County CEO Aileen Trew said: “This is without doubt one of the hardest decisions that we have had to make as a board because we know how much this club means to Shaun and Greg and we know how much hard work they had both put in during their time here.
  • (7) It is not long since Salmond attended the premiere of Pixar's Brave (with its acclaimed bagpipe soundtrack) in tartan trews.
  • (8) London is experiencing what New York City used to experience,” he told Brand in an interview broadcast on the comedian’s Trews show on YouTube.
  • (9) I guess the closest analogy would be with Russell Brand’s The Trews .
  • (10) Nobody wants to talk about his gigs or acting; there is only one thing on their mind: the Trews and politics.
  • (11) Pamela Mack, Karen Trew discuss the value of using a behaviour checklist as one aide in the assessment of childhood behaviour problems, with particular emphasis on the importance of involving fathers.
  • (12) Texts from May’s aide, Fiona Hill, to Morgan, about not wanting her in a meeting – one text ended “so there” – are utterly childish, but so are Morgan’s remarks about never having spent as much on an item of clothing as May has spent on her posh trews.
  • (13) What his solution looks like might depend on how you see him: media darling, irritant, inspiration, guru, reformed drug addict, former husband to singer Katy Perry, author, founder of daily news hack The Trews , opponent of voting or man of the people.
  • (14) People support the Trews,” a well-spoken young man says.

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