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Highland dress

noun

  1. the historical costume, including the plaid, kilt or filibeg, and bonnet, as worn by Highland clansmen and soldiers
  2. a modern version of this worn for formal occasions
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The green, blue and red pattern was designed by the Scottish Tartans Authority in 2023 to recognise "His Majesty's strong support in preserving the culture and traditions of Highland Dress and Scottish Tartans".

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The property was decked out in tartan, and Violet bought bagpipes and wore Highland dress.

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Lynne Fuller was putting through trolley-loads of shopping at Aldi's Inshes store in Inverness when a piper in full Highland dress marched in, followed by her boyfriend Mike Durrant.

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It included a ban on the wearing of tartan in the form of Highland dress, which the government regarded to be the uniform of the Jacobites.

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When the British government attempted to restrain the use of “Highland dress” in 1747, after the failed Jacobite Rising, tartan became a testament to endurance, even rebellion.

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